Gingerbread Sweet Potato Casserole
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Ready In: 1 hr 25 mins
Serves: 10
Ingredients
- 6 sweet potatoes (4 pounds)
- 1⁄2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup butter or 1⁄2 cup margarine, melted
- 1⁄3 cup half-and-half
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1⁄4 cup cold butter or 1⁄4 cup margarine, cut into pieces
- 32 coarsely crushed gingersnap cookies (Nabisco brand preferred)
Directions
- Cook sweet potatoes in a Dutch oven in boiling water and cover over medium heat 30 minutes or until tender. Cool; peel and mash potatoes.
- Combine mashed sweet potatoes, 1/2 cup brown sugar, and next 4 ingredients in a mixing bowl; beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. (Or mash with a potato masher until smooth.) Spoon into a greased 2 1/2-quart pr 13"x9" baking dish.
- Combine 1/2 cup brown sugar and flour. Cut in 1/4 cup cold butter with a pastry blender until crumbly. Stir in crushed gingersnaps. Sprinkle streusel over sweet potato mixture. Bake, uncovered, at 350F for 25 minutes or until streusel is lightly browned.
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