Put a twist on a classic holiday side dish with these easy and oh-so-delicious Sweet Potato Casserole Bites!
Sweet potato casserole or candied yams? Whatever you call it this marshmallow topped sweet potato casserole was my absolute favorite dessert growing up! I would look forward to indulging every Thanksgiving.
This year, I decided to put a twist on the classic flavors of sweet potato casserole with this easy Thanksgiving side dish or appetizer!
Sweet potato rounds are roasted, then topped with butter, brown sugar, pecans and mini marshmallows - it's the best of sweet potato casserole in a few delectable bites. How awesome would these be for a Thanksgiving appetizer? No longer just a lumpy bumpy side dish ... these sweet potato casserole bites will absolutely steal the show!
Ingredients
The best part is that there are only 5 ingredients!
- mini marshmallows
- sweet potatoes
- brown sugar
- chopped pecans
- butter
You might also like this homemade from scratch sweet potato pie on our sister site!
Step by step
- It gets started with 4 big sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced into rounds. I was able to get about 30, half-inch thick sweet potato rounds divided between two baking sheets.
- Coat lightly with olive oil and roast ten minutes or until fork tender.
- While they roast melt the butter and combine with the brown sugar and pecans.
- Top each sweet potato round with a generous spoonful of butter, brown sugar and pecans.
- Add mini marshmallows on top and return to the oven until the marshmallows begin to melt.
Soft, sweet mini marshmallows bake up puffy and pillowy and then melt into a sticky puddle covering that brown sugar and pecan goodness ...
Serve these sweet potato bites with oven roasted turkey breast and twice baked potato cups for a Thanksgiving themed dinner year round!
If you try this recipe, please comment and rate it below, I love hearing from you!
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Sweet Potato Casserole Bites
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 24 1x
- Category: appetizer
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
Put a twist on a classic holiday side dish with these easy and oh-so-delicious Sweet Potato Casserole Bites!
Ingredients
- 4 large sweet potatoes (about 3 ½ pounds)
- olive oil
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- ¼ cup (½ stick) unsalted butter
- mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Spray two baking sheets with non-stick cooking spray.
- Peel sweet potatoes and slice into ½ inch rounds.
- Place sweet potato rounds on baking sheet, drizzle lightly with olive oil and roast until the rounds are fork tender but not TOO soft. Mine took about 10 minutes.
- While potatoes are roasting, melt butter in a microwave safe bowl.
- Stir together butter, brown sugar and pecans.
- Divide brown sugar pecan mixture over the tops of the roasted potato rounds.
- Add 5 or 6 mini marshmallows on top of the brown sugar pecan mixture.
- Return pan to the oven until marshmallows are melted.
Keywords: Sweet Potato Casserole Bites
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keri @ shaken together says
Kelly - I agree! They have a ton of healthy and organic products at some great prices! I was really surprised to find all of the 'gourmet' items like meats, cheese and fancy crackers for entertaining, too!
Lindsay AFM says
These look SO good! Pinning!
Erin Spain says
These look delicious! Pinned!
Crystal says
I added this recipe to our Thanksgiving meal list. I can't wait to make them!! Thanks so much 🙂
Linda Kilsdonk says
This sound yummily delicious -- and not too hard to make. I will have to give them a try, maybe for this Thanksgiving. Thanks for sharing with us! Smiles, Linda at Paper Seedlings
Mary Beth says
Usually my family loves sweet potatoes year round, but when this time of year comes around...they absolutely LOVE treats like this! Looks tasty! xo
AnnMarie says
These look so good! A must try. I love Aldi's too and saw a huge reduction in my grocery bill when I started shopping there.
Karly says
Awesome idea! Thanks for linkin' up with What's Cookin' Wednesday!
Kristin says
Amazing these are amazing. Thank you so much for this recipe
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