Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Method15 steps

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   Step 1: Preheat the oven to 400°F /205°C.

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   Step 2: Wash and dry the sweet potato (1), then prick a few holes in its skin.

   Uses 1 sweet potato

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   Step 3: Lightly coat the outside with shortening.

   Uses pricked sweet potato · Shortening

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   Step 4: Bake on a baking sheet for about 45 minutes, until tender throughout.

   Bake sweet potato · 45 minUses shortening-coated sweet potato

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   Step 5: Let it cool enough to handle, then cut lengthwise into two halves.

   Uses fully baked sweet potato

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   Step 6: Scoop the flesh into a bowl, leaving about ¼ inch /6 mm of potato inside each skin.

   Uses baked sweet-potato halves

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   Step 7: Keep the shells intact with their thin potato walls so they will hold the filling; set them on the baking sheet.

   Uses Prepared sweet-potato shells

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   Step 8: Add 1–2 tbsp cream cheese, 2–4 tsp brown sugar and ¼–½ tsp vanilla to the scooped flesh, choosing within those source ranges to taste.

   Uses Scooped baked sweet-potato flesh · 1-2 Tablespoons cream cheese · 2-4 teaspoons brown sugar · 1/4-1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

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   Step 9: Mix the filling until creamy.

   Uses sweet-potato filling ingredients

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    Step 10: Stir a few pinches cinnamon into the filling, then taste and adjust if desired.

    Uses creamy sweet-potato filling · A few pinches cinnamon for filling

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    Step 11: Spoon the prepared filling into the two shells and smooth the tops.

    Uses prepared cinnamon sweet-potato filling · prepared sweet-potato shells

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    Step 12: Sprinkle with a little cinnamon, the separate topping brown sugar and pecans to taste.

    Uses filled sweet-potato shells · Additional cinnamon for topping · Extra brown sugar for topping (quantity unspecified) · Pecans for topping (quantity unspecified)

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    Step 13: Return to the oven until the filled halves are warm throughout; no exact second-bake time is specified.

    Uses topped sweet-potato halves

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    Step 14: Top with a little butter.

    Uses warm twice-baked sweet-potato halves · Butter

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    Step 15: Serve while warm.

    Uses finished butter-topped sweet-potato halves