They become extremely creamy and subtly sweet when cream cheese is added.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 45 mins |
| Servings: | 2 |
| Yield: | 2 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 sweet potatoes, scrubbed and pierced several times with a fork
- ¼ cup cream cheese, softened
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons chopped pecans
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Bake sweet potatoes in the preheated oven until tender, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Set aside until cool enough to handle.
- Cut a thin lengthwise slice from the top of each sweet potato and discard slice. Scoop pulp from sweet potatoes, leaving thin shells. Place pulp into a bowl and mash with cream cheese. Stir brown sugar, pecans, and cinnamon into mixture and fill sweet potato shells with pulp. Place filled sweet potatoes onto a baking sheet.
- Bake until sweet potatoes are heated through, 15 to 20 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 423 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 66 g |
| Cholesterol | 32 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 9 g |
| Protein | 7 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 244 mg |
| Sugars | 19 g |
| Fat | 16 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Hubby loved it. I didn’t use the skins just put it in a casserole dish and it was perfect.
These were good. Next time, though I would add more brown sugar and some butter. I didn’t put the filling back in the skins but served the filling in ramekins–much easier.
Yummers! Even hubby gave this 5* and he’s not usually a fan of nuts in his dinner or of sweet side dishes. I reserved some of the nuts and sprinkled them on top of the potatoes before the 2nd bake. Soooo good!
Very tasty. Enjoyed at David’s party
I had to make some changes because I didn’t have cream cheese or brown sugar; however, I did have marshmallows and a brown raw sugar. And that worked out for me since I am watching my diet. So I made those changes and the potatoes came out deliciously! 5 out of 5!
My husband doesn’t care for sweet potatoes so I was surprised when he not only tried it, but ate the whole thing, and rated it “5 star”. This was perfect for us, tasty and not too sweet. I made it exactly as written and wouldn’t make any adjustments.