So this weekend I tried my hand at making a somewhat healthier version of them, and much to my delight, they were awesome! Sorry for the no photos, I took 1 as we were lining up marshmallows, but it's on my phone, which is dead on the charger right now. So here's the breakdown, and it made enough for the 3 of us to eat all we could, with some leftovers today:
2 large sweet potatoes
1/4 cup milk
3 tablespoons of butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
salt to taste
3 tablespoons brown sugar (topping)
1 cup mini marshmallows
Peel & cut up the sweet potatoes, and boil until they are soft. Put them in a glass bowl and add milk and butter. Beat with an electric mixer, adding in the 1/2 cup of brown sugar and the salt until smooth. It took me about 5 minutes, 1 or 2 of those on a pretty high mixing speed to get them nice and soft. Add a little more milk if you feel as though they aren't getting smooth enough.
Once they're done, dump them into a dark metal pan (I used a cake pan, as it was randomly the easiest clean dish available and it worked perfectly!) and smooth out the top. Sprinkle the extra 3 tablespoons of brown sugar on top, and then add the marshmallows.
Bake it at 350 degrees for about 10-12 minutes, until the marshmallows are nice and brown on top, and soft and gooey underneath. The tops of ours were a little crunchy, like that fresh-from-the-campfire taste and were DELICIOUS. When we cracked out the leftovers however, the tops had softened, so beware the texture will be a little different.
These are a great side dish for just about anything on the grill. We ate them with pork chops, however they'd be great with turkey (obviously!) or grilled chicken as well. I'm thinking these may become a Fall meal staple around our house in the coming months...
Thanks for checking in, sorry about the bi-week last week, but I should be back on the bandwagon this week, so check back Wednesday for another Scraptastic layout.
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