Red Hot Sweet Potatoes. Red Hot Sweet Potatoes

You can have Red Hot Sweet Potatoes using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Red Hot Sweet Potatoes
  1. It’s 3 1/2 lbs of sweet potatoes.
  2. Prepare 1/4 cup of butter.
  3. It’s 1/2 cup of packed brown sugar.
  4. Prepare 1 1/4 cups of cinnamon red hots (2 - 5 1/2 oz boxes.
  5. You need 1/4 cup of water (orig 3/4 c).
  6. You need 10 oz of pkg mini marshmallows.
Red Hot Sweet Potatoes instructions
  1. Place sweet potatoes into a large saucepan with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil, and cook over medium heat until tender, about 25 minutes. Drain water, mash, and place potatoes in a large casserole dish.

  2. Preheat oven to 350°.

  3. In medium bowl stir together butter, brown sugar, red hot candies and water. Pour over the sweet potatoes in the dish..

  4. Bake for 1 hour in the oven until sweet potatoes are soft and the candies are melted..

  5. Top with marshmallows and return to oven for 10 minutes to melt them. Best to add marshmallows right before serving then toast with torch..