SWEET POTATOES

Ingredients:

• 3 enormous Sweet Potatoes (or 4 medium ones). The garnet ones, kind of a dark red-brown color. They have a bright orange flesh and taste better that the other kinds.
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
• Optional 4 oranges, cut in half (if you want to bake them in orange halves... you can put the juice from the oranges in with the sweet potato mixture if you are using the oranges)
• 2 whole Eggs (just leave these out if you want them vegan)
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1 cup Brown Sugar
• 1 cup Walnuts or Pecans, chopped
• 1/2 cup Flour
• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg
• 3/4 stick Butter (or vegan butter)

Instructions:

Wash the sweet potatoes, poke them with a knife so they don't explode, and bake them in a 375-degree oven until fork tender, about 40 minutes. 

Make sure you line your baking dish or sheet pan with foil... because they will really mess it up with sticky burned stuff.

You can just eat them this way with butter and maple syrup, or go ahead and make a casserole out of them...let them cool for a while, and then slice them open and scrape out the flesh into a large bowl.

Add 1 cup of (regular granulated) sugar, cayenne, 2 eggs, and 1 teaspoon of salt. Stir it all together. Add the orange juice if you are making orange ones.

Now, in a separate bowl, add 1 cup brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, nuts, chopped, ½ cup flour, and ¾ stick of butter. With a fork, mash together until thoroughly combined.

Spread the sweet potato mixture into a regular baking dish and sprinkle the crumb mixture all over the top. Or, if you want individual servings, you can scoop the flesh out of the orange halves, scoop the mixture into the little orange bowls, sprinkle with the toppings and place them in a baking dish.

Bake in a 400°F oven for 30 minutes, or until golden brown.