Yummy Yummy in My Tummy

I don't know about y'all but I have been sooooo busy lately! But I'm not really complaining, this really is an awesome time of year! I love the holidays for so many reasons: extra excuses to see family, and perhaps some that you don't see very often, you get to eat so much incredible food, and you get time off work or school, and we get brought back to the reason of who we live this crazy life for: Jesus!! We went up to see my family in Tennessee for Thanksgiving and then we'll be going back up this weekend for my sweet friend Emily's wedding and  Jeff and Leslie (I told y'all about them a few weeks ago) will be flying in!!! The following weekend, so the one before Christmas, we'll be driving the 10 hours to Brandon's family up in Missouri. The day after Christmas, we'll drive back home and get to have Christmas with my side of the family! Whew. And then a week later we leave for a cruise ;)

I have a recipe for you that is so incredibly yummy, it's like eating dessert for a side dish! This is your true southern Sweet Potato Casserole recipe. It's family fav, and when I took it to a gathering with a bunch of friends I didn't get to take any home! (So sad.) Now even though there are sweet potatoes in this thing, that does not mean it is healthy! But it is oh so good. And that's what matters, right? ;)

Here's the list of ingredients for sweet potato mixture:
3 cups sweet potatoes
2 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup milk 1 stick of butter
2 tsp. vanilla

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My family usually gets the can of yams, so the sweet potatoes are sitting in a sweet syrup. But for next time I'm considering using fresh sweet potatoes and cooking them up (to soften). When I do that I'll have to play around with how much more sugar I need to add to the overall recipe.

So first! You put all the (above) ingredients in your mixer and mix it up good! While it's mixing, using a stick of butter to butter up your 9 x 13 in pan. Also, preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

 

Once your mixture is thoroughly mixed, don't worry if you see small chunks of butter- that's normal, put it in your pan and stick that sucker in the oven! For only 10 minutes.

Next! While it's baking, it's time to make the topping.

Topping ingredients:
1 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup flour
1/2 stick soften butter
1 cup of chopped nuts (we choose pecans)

Mix all of the ingredients except the nuts. Once all the ingredients are mixed, I suggest acting like its a pastry and using two knives to cut everything up, then you can put the nuts in.

As soon as your initial 10 minutes of baking are up, bring out the sweet potato mixture and crumble the topping on it. Then stick the pan back into the oven for an addition 20-25 minutes. You want to see that everything had pretty much solidified and the topping wont look as crumbly anymore. More like a dessert type of crust. Yum, yum.

(And as you can see, I kinda forgot to take a picture before we started digging in. Whoops!)

Now let your taste buds feast!