Sweet Potato Casserole

My Best Sweet Potato Casserole recipe is a scrumptiously perfect comfort food classic, you’ll be asked to make over and over again.

The creamy, buttery sweet potatoes are topped with a crunchy pecan streusel and baked in a casserole dish.

We love serving Sweet Potato Casserole with ham, turkey or even as the side for pot roast, pork loin or chicken. It is simply the perfect complement to any protein.

Most of us think of Sweet Potato Casserole as a Thanksgiving or Christmas side, but it’s lovely at any special Fall or Winter meal. And it’s even a fantastic dish for Easter.

Vegetables never tasted so good! You’re going to be the hero of your kitchen with this best Sweet Potato Casserole recipe!

The Ingredients

Sweet potatoes and pecans are staples in my pantry, but even if they’re not in yours, they’re likely the only two ingredients you will need to add to the shopping list for this elegant holiday and Fall gathering side dish.

For the Casserole:

• Fresh Sweet Potatoes
• Eggs
• Milk
• Sugar (Both granulated and brown sugar work equally well. Choose your favorite.)
• Butter
• Homemade Vanilla Extract

Bake the sweet potatoes on a parchment-lined baking sheet and clean-up is a breeze. Once the potatoes are cool enough to handle, slide them out of their skins. Gather the parchment up by the corners with the skins inside and toss in the trash. Super simple!

For the Streusel Topping:

• Butter
• Brown sugar
• Flour
• Cinnamon
• Pecans

FAQs

Making Sweet Potato Casserole Ahead and Freezing

To freeze Sweet Potato Casserole for use at a future date, simply stop after Step 5, in the recipe. Be sure your casserole is 100% cool before covering. Cover and seal the pan tightly with heavy duty foil. (If you only have regular foil, use a double layer to prevent freezer burn. Freeze the casserole for up to 3 months. How awesome is that?

Being able to prepare parts of big meals ahead of time is a huge time saver. Plus, savvy cooks double recipes when they make them. It takes no more time to mix up a double batch, than a single. Bake one sweet potato casserole and put the other in the freezer for a potluck or gathering, later. You are so smart!

Freeze just the casserole portion of your sweet potato casserole recipe. (Add the streusel just before baking.) Spread it in the baking pan or casserole dish and cover it tightly with plastic wrap and then with a layer of foil.

When you take the sweet potato casserole out of the freezer to bake, be sure to thaw it in the fridge overnight.

It should be completely thawed before you start to bake. Then top with the Streusel Topping and bake just as steps 6-8, of the recipe, instruct.

How to Make Sweet Potato Casserole

1. You’ll need to bake the sweet potatoes, before you start mixing up this recipe. The passive baking time is something you should plan ahead for, since they’ll need an hour to an hour and a half to bake, depending on their size. Lightly grease a casserole dish and preheat the oven to 350° F.
2. Then, remove the skins and mash the sweet potatoes. I actually mash them right in the measuring cup I am using to measure them for the recipe. It only requires a fork.
3. Mixing up the sweet potato mixture is a five-minute task. Put the sweet potato pulp in a mixing bowl with the sugar, eggs, butter, milk and vanilla.

4. Everything in one bowl. I doubled it this time, so mine is super full. Also, I had vanilla bean powder in the pantry, so used that instead of liquid vanilla, today. Both work beautifully!
5. Whisk them to combine all the ingredients and pour the sweet potato mixture into a 9×13 baking dish. (You could also fill individual *ramekins, depending on how you plan to serve the casserole. See image, below.)

6. Seeing a few streaks or flecks of butter through your mixture is normal and nothing to be concerned with. Choose the baking containers that make the most sense for your gathering.
7. Cover the mashed sweet potatoes mixture with the Brown Sugar Streusel Pecan Topping and bake for thirty minutes.

Divine! Sweet Potato Casserole will be a celebration hit on your holiday menu. It’s an easy side dish with wide appeal.

If you need a savory sweet potato side dish check out Luci’s Wild Rice Pilaf with Sweet Potatoes over at Luci’s Morsels.

Sweet Potato Casserole is actually delicious any time of year and a perfect side dish to complement delicious Fall mains like my friend, Sarah’s, slow cooker pork loin. Enjoy!

The Recipe

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