Crock Pot Candied Sweet Potatoes

Make these Crock Pot Candied Sweet Potatoes and free up some oven space.

Cooking Thanksgiving dinner side dish recipes in one or more crock pots will help keep the house cooler.

It will also save that much-needed oven space for the Thanksgiving Day turkey, side dish recipes and dessert recipes that have to be cooked in the oven.

This crock pot recipe is my version of a Southern Candied Sweet Potatoes recipe that I have been making for years.

Crock Pot Candied Sweet Potatoes is a Thanksgiving side dish recipe that I can not live without on Thanksgiving day.

I cheated a few times over years and made frozen candied sweet potatoes. There is no comparison.

Homemade Candied Sweet Potatoes

Making homemade candied sweet potatoes is so much better than any frozen candied sweet potatoes I have ever tried.

That also goes for using canned yams or sweet potatoes instead of fresh sweet potatoes.

When you use the canned sweet potatoes they are way too soft to begin with and turn out mushy and don’t hold their shape like fresh sweet potatoes do.

The texture is never the same and the flavor of fresh sweet potatoes is so much better.

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Peeling fresh Sweet Potatoes

The hardest part to this Crock Pot Candied Sweet Potatoes recipe is peeling the fresh sweet potatoes.

It is a little time consuming, but a sharp paring knife will get the job done quickly.

I tried using a vegetable peeler, but it was awkward to hold the bigger sweet potatoes and use the peeler. It was much easier to use a paring knife than the vegetable peeler.

A sharp ceramic knife makes quick work of cutting the raw sweet potatoes into thick slices.

I cooked these Crock Pot Candied Sweet Potatoes in my 6 qt crock pot slow cooker.

There was plenty of room left in the crock pot so if you need to double the candied sweet potatoes recipe to feed a large crowd you could easily double the recipe.

I like to serve most of my crock pot recipes right from the crock pot.

It makes my life so much easier but for the holidays setting a pretty table is more important.

Keep the candied sweet potatoes warm in the crock pot until its time to serve dinner.

Then carefully transfer the candied sweet potatoes to a 3 quart or 6-quart casserole dish so you can serve them from the table.

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How to make Crock Pot Candied Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

3 pounds fresh sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 inch thick slices
1 stick unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/2-3/4 bag of mini marshmallows

Directions

Place all the ingredients except the sweet potatoes and marshmallows into a medium saucepan.
Heat the syrup to boiling, stirring occasionally. Once the syrup starts to boil cook for 3 minutes.
Remove pot from the heat.
Place half the sweet potatoes into the bottom of a 4-quart crock pot.
Pour half the syrup over the sweet potatoes.
Layer the remaining sweet potato slices in the crock pot.
Pour remaining syrup over the sweet potato slices.
Fold a triple layer of paper towels and place over the top of the crock pot.
Place lid on crock pot and cook on high for 2-3 hours or until fork tender.
Once the sweet potatoes are fork tender spread the mini marshmallows over the top of the sweet potato slices.
Replace lid and turn crock pot on warm.
Serve once marshmallows are melted.
Sprinkle some ground cinnamon over the marshmallows if desired.
Keep warm if not serving immediately.