Slow Cooker Canned Candied Yams

Slow Cooker Candied Sweet Potatoes are so simple and delicious. Throw them in the crock pot in the morning and let them slowly cook all day long while you prepare your other dishes.

Slow Cooker Candied Sweet Potatoes Recipe

With Thanksgiving around the corner, you will want to add these Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes to your menu!

I love that I can put these in my crock pot in the morning and have an amazing side dish by dinner time.

Ingredients needed for Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes:

sweet potatoes
orange juice
vanilla extract
ground cinnamon
ground nutmeg
salt
brown sugar
mini marshmallows

How to make Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes:

Spray slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray.

Spread chopped sweet potatoes in the bottom of the slow cooker.

sliced sweet potatoes with brown sugar spices and orange juice

In a medium mixing bowl, combine orange juice, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and brown sugar.

Pour over the top of the sweet potatoes and place lid on the slow cooker.

sweet potatoes in the slow cooker ready to cook

Cook on low for 4-6 hours or high for 2-3 hours.

Once cooked, pour all the contents from your slow cooker into a baking dish.

Top with marshmallows and broil in oven until marshmallows (about 1-2 minutes – watch carefully!) are golden brown.

sweet potatoes cooked and topped with marshmallows in small white bowls

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What is the difference between yams and sweet potatoes?

The deeper copper-colored sweet potatoes are often referred to as yams because they have the soft outside and sweeter skin, like a true yam.

Sweet potatoes, with a lighter skin and inside, have a harder skin. This is how they differentiate the two at grocery stores.

Both the orange and yellow sweet potatoes, are actually sweet potatoes, although label differently at the store.

Either type of potato would work for this recipe.

sweet potatoes covered in browned marshmallows in a white dish

How do I get the marshmallows to golden?

For this recipe, we popped it into the oven for about 40 seconds, and the marshmallows broiled perfectly.

They broil fast, so be sure to keep an eye on them. If they burn, you can always scrape them off and try again.

You could also use a culinary torch to golden them up, but I usually stick to broiling for less than a minutes, and they turn out perfect every time.

sweet potatoes topped with golden marshmallows in 3 white bowls

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More easy side dish recipes for Thanksgiving:

Grandma's Thanksgiving Dressing (Stuffing)
Roasted Honey Cinnamon Butternut Squash Recipe
Strawberries and Cream Jello Dessert Salad Recipe
Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes
Homemade Green Bean Casserole without Condensed Soup

More sweet potato recipes to try:

Instant Pot Baked Sweet Potatoes
Brown Sugar Bacon Roasted Sweet Potatoes
Twice Baked Bacon and Chive Sweet Potatoes
Maple Bacon Sweet Potatoes
Coconut Pecan Sweet Potatoes
Mom's Sweet Potato Casserole

Serves: 8

Slow Cooker Candied Sweet Potatoes Recipe (with Marshmallows)

Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes are so simple and delicious. Throw them in the crock pot in the morning and let them slowly cook all day long while you prepare your other dishes.

Prep Time 15 mins

Cook Time 4 hrs

Broil Time 1 min

Total Time 4 hrs 16 mins

6 sweet potatoes peeled and sliced
½ cup orange juice
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon salt
¾ cup brown sugar
2 cups mini marshmallows

Spray slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray.
Spread chopped sweet potatoes in the bottom of the slow cooker.
In a medium mixing bowl, combine orange juice, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and brown sugar.
Pour over the top of the sweet potatoes and place lid on the slow cooker.
Cook on low for 4-6 hours or high for 2-3.
Once cooked, pour all the contents from your slow cooker into a baking dish.
Top with marshmallows and broil in oven until marshmallows are golden brown (mine took about 45 seconds!).

If you don't want to add marshmallows, these sweet potatoes are delicious eaten as is after they are done cooking in the slow cooker! The marshmallows are totally optional.

Calories: 275 kcal · Carbohydrates: 66 g · Protein: 3 g · Fat: 1 g · Saturated Fat: 1 g · Sodium: 400 mg · Potassium: 630 mg · Fiber: 5 g · Sugar: 36 g · Vitamin A: 24078 IU · Vitamin C: 12 mg · Calcium: 72 mg · Iron: 1 mg

Slow Cooker
9×13 Inch Baking Dish

Recipe Details

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

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slow cooker sweet potatoes in 3 ramekins with marshmallows on top

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