Betty's Pecan-Topped Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe

In this video, Betty demonstrates how to make a dish for your holiday table, her Pecan-Topped Sweet Potato Casserole. It consists of luscious, spiced, whipped sweet potatoes, with a wonderful crumbly mixture of brown sugar, butter, flour and pecans on top. Festive and scrumptious!

Ingredients:

3 cups sweet potatoes or yams, cooked (I used canned sweet potatoes.)
½ cup sugar
2 eggs
1 stick butter or margarine, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
cooking oil spray or butter for greasing baking dish

Topping:

½ cup flour (I used self-rising flour.)
½ stick butter or margarine, cool from the refrigerator
1 cup light brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans

In a large mixing bowl, mash 3 cups cooked sweet potatoes and mix with ½ cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 stick melted butter or margarine, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg. (You may use an electric mixer to make a smooth mixture.) Pour into a greased 8-inch by 10-inch (or similar) oven-proof baking dish. (I used cooking oil spray to grease the baking dish.) Now make the topping: Mix ½ cup flour, ½ stick cool butter or margarine, 1 cup light brown sugar, and 1 cup chopped pecans, until crumbly. (You may want to use a pastry blender for the flour, butter, and brown sugar, and then stir in the pecans afterward.) Sprinkle topping over the sweet potato mixture in the baking dish, and bake at 350 degrees until bubbly and beginning to brown on top (about 20 to 30 minutes). This is my favorite holiday sweet potato casserole. It is very easy to make and the flavor is terrific! Enjoy!!!

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[dvinb12345]

I'm almost sure that's a sweet potato. Yams are actually white (or so the internet says).

[bettyskitchen]

@dvinb12345 Yes, sweet potatoes and yams are two different entities!

--Betty :)

[jeanajaltouni]

so how much do u bench-press? =D

[bettyskitchen]

@jeanajaltouni I do the chest press on a machine, and I only do about 60 pounds on the machine in my circuit training.

--Betty :)

[bettyskitchen]

@jeanajaltouni I do the chest press on a machine, and I only do about 60 pounds on the machine in my circuit training.

--Betty :)

[JennyJenn14]

Would you suggest adding cinnamon to the casserole if we wanted to, or would that be overload or interfere with the nutmeg?

[bettyskitchen]

@JennyJenn14 Cinnamon and nutmeg are great together.  Yes, add the cinnamon!

--Betty :)

[bnpearson1]

Thanks for showing what it looks like! I was doubting if i cooked mines right! Thanks for the confirmation! You rock! God bless!

[playboy110580]

OMG you and your food are fine devine and right on time I wish I could kiss the cook lol

[KlilOurMoon]

deeem...the video begun 1 second and im already talkin about betty body?

[iLikeCookie88]

@paperflowers198 Well, of course it's about what you eat as well!

[Latentsee]

Betty is quite right and LawrenceKennard is quite wrong....see Wikipedia. Yams and Sweet Potatoes are TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PLANT FAMILIES and come from entirely different parts of the world. In America we only eat sweet potatoes and USDA requires any can with the word yam on it to also have the word "sweet potato" because the product is not a yam.