Ingredients
Method
- Preheat your oven to 350°F (177°C). Lightly grease a 9x13-inch baking dish with butter or cooking spray.
- Using a fork, pierce the sweet potatoes all over. Place them on a foil-lined baking sheet and bake for about 1 hour, or until tender.
- Once the sweet potatoes are cool enough to handle, peel them and transfer the flesh to a large mixing bowl. Mash until smooth.
- Add the eggs, granulated sugar, butter, vanilla extract, milk, and a pinch of salt to the mashed sweet potatoes. Use an electric mixer or hand mixer to blend until well combined.
- Pour the sweet potato mixture into the prepared baking dish and spread it evenly.
Nutrition
Notes
Pro Tips:
Roast your sweet potatoes whole instead of boiling them. This concentrates the natural sugars and prevents water from diluting the flavor, giving you that rich, intense sweetness that makes people ask for your secret. Choose sweet potatoes that give slightly to pressure and have wrinkled skin – they're not going bad, they're perfectly cured. These have converted more starch to sugar and will give you exponentially better flavor than firm ones. Add a pinch of ground cloves along with your cinnamon – this Dominican trick creates warmth without overpowering, and the eugenol compounds in cloves actually enhance the perception of sweetness in the dish. Mix your wet ingredients into cooled sweet potatoes, not hot ones. Hot potatoes will scramble your eggs slightly and create a grainy texture instead of that silky-smooth casserole consistency everyone craves.
Roast your sweet potatoes whole instead of boiling them. This concentrates the natural sugars and prevents water from diluting the flavor, giving you that rich, intense sweetness that makes people ask for your secret. Choose sweet potatoes that give slightly to pressure and have wrinkled skin – they're not going bad, they're perfectly cured. These have converted more starch to sugar and will give you exponentially better flavor than firm ones. Add a pinch of ground cloves along with your cinnamon – this Dominican trick creates warmth without overpowering, and the eugenol compounds in cloves actually enhance the perception of sweetness in the dish. Mix your wet ingredients into cooled sweet potatoes, not hot ones. Hot potatoes will scramble your eggs slightly and create a grainy texture instead of that silky-smooth casserole consistency everyone craves.