Easy Candied Yams Recipe

Easy Candied Yams is an old fashion recipe featuring sweet potatoes, baked with a brown sugar glaze topped with Marshmallows.

Candied yams are an old-fashioned side dish that’s oven baked with warm spices, sugar and butter. It is a popular Thanksgiving side dish. Candied yams are often severed alongside Baked Macaroni and Cheese.

Have you ever wondered when the Candied Yam Recipe was invented?

The oldest recipe for candied yams is from 1889, Cellania writes. Fannie Farmer’s 1918 recipe for “Glazed sweet potatoes” calls for boiling the potatoes before coating them in a sugar syrup with butter and baking “until brown, basting twice with the remaining syrup.”

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Ingredients:

• Sweet potatoes or 40 oz can of yams
• unsalted butter
• brown sugar
• cinnamon
• mini marshmallows

Directions:

1. If using sweet potatoes, you will need to boil the potatoes for about 45 minutes or until fork tender. (Cooking time depends on the size of potatoes.) Run under cool water, skin should slide right off sweet potatoes
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (176 degrees Celius). Add Potatoe to a mixing bowl and mash them. Set them aside. (If using can yams drain the yams, add then to a bowl and mash with a Potatoe masher.)
3. In a saucepan using low heat melt ½ cup of butter (This is one stick of butter). Once butter is melted add the 1 cup of brown sugar. Stir. Then stir in the one teaspoon of cinnamon. Bring to a boil and immediately remove from heat.
4. Pour brown sugar glaze over potatoes. Stir the glaze into the potatoes. (If adding pecans add them in before adding the glaze.) Add potatoes to baking dish. Top with marshmallows.
5. Bake in preheated over for 10 minutes until marshmallows have melted. Baking time will depend on your oven. Check after 5 minutes to make sure Marshmallows are not beginning to burn.

Easy Candied Yams Recipe

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Easy Southern Candied Yams is an old fashion recipe featuring sweet potatoes, baked with a brown sugar glaze topped with Marshmellos.

• Prep Time: 1 hour
• Cook Time: 10 minutes
• Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
• Category: Side Dish
• Cuisine: American

Ingredients

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• 3 pound Sweet potatoes or 40 oz can of yams
• ½ cup unsalted butter ((1 stick of butter))
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup mini marshmallows

Instructions

1. If using sweet potatoes, you will need to boil the potatoes for about 45 minutes or until fork tender. (Cooking time depends on the size of potatoes.) Run under cool water, skin should slide right off sweet potatoes
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (176 degrees Celius). Add Potatoe to a mixing bowl and mash them. Set them aside. (If using can yams drain the yams, add then to a bowl and mash with a Potatoe masher.)
3. In a saucepan using low heat melt ½ cup of butter (This is one stick of butter). Once butter is melted add the 1 cup of brown sugar. Stir. Then stir in the one teaspoon of cinnamon. Bring to a boil and immediately remove from heat.
4. Pour brown sugar glaze over potatoes. Stir the glaze into the potatoes. (If adding pecans add them in before adding the glaze.) Add potatoes to baking dish. Top with marshmallows.
5. Bake in preheated over for 10 minutes until marshmallows have melted. Baking time will depend on your oven. Check after 5 minutes to make sure Marshmallows are not beginning to burn.
   

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Notes

Candied Yams can be made ahead of time. Follow Steps 1-4. Cover baking dish with aluminum foil and place in freezer up to three days ahead of cook time or place in refrigerator the day before. When ready to cook place pan in preheated oven. If dish was frozen it will take additional baking time.

Nutrition

• Calories: 1814
• Sugar: 242
• Sodium: 114
• Fat: 92
• Saturated Fat: 58
• Carbohydrates: 258
• Fiber: 1
• Protein: 2
• Cholesterol: 244

Keywords: Candied Yams, Cheese sauce, Sweet potatoes, Thanksgiving, Yams