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Winter Best Food

Slow-Cooker Sweet Potato Casserole with Marshmallows

The genius hack in this recipe: topping sweet potatoes with marshmallows while they're still piping hot from the slow cooker yields a baked marshmallow topping that's typical with baked sweet potato casseroles.

Ingredients

  • 3 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and diced (1/2 inch)
  • 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
  • 3 tablespoons melted butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon ground pepper
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • ½ cup mini marshmallows
  • ½ cup toasted chopped pecans

Directions

  1. Place sweet potatoes, brown sugar, butter, vanilla, salt, pepper, cinnamon and nutmeg in a 5- to 6-quart slow cooker. Stir to coat. Cook on High for 3 hours.

  2. Transfer to a serving dish. Top with marshmallows and pecans. (The heat from the sweet potatoes will partially melt the marshmallows.)