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Serve up Delicious Sweet Potato Souffle Crunch With Your Thanksgiving Meal

Sweet potato pie is good, but this is souffle crunch is better.

I've been making this Sweet Potato Souffle Crunch for about 20 Thanksgivings now.

I got the recipe from my Aunt Anne. I have no idea where she got it. I wrote down her instructions inside the front cover of a cookbook I got as a wedding present (see photo) and have consulted them many times over the years. 

Anne likes to double up on the crunch topping. I sometimes do, but not always. The recipe below is for the regular amount of topping. 

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Ingredients for souffle:

3 cups cooked and mashed sweet potatoes (I don't really measure this, but that is what the recipe calls for -- I just use three medium sweet potatoes.)

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1 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 eggs slightly beaten

2 1/2 tablespoons melted butter or margarine

1/2 cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

Mix all ingredients together (Tip: for best consistency, use an electric mixer and beat until fluffy) and pour into medium-sized casserole dish coated with cooking spray. Top with crunch topping (see below). Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.

Crunch topping:

Melt 2 1/2 tablespoons of butter or margarine. Add 1 cup of brown sugar, 1/2 cup of flour and 1 cup of chopped pecans. Stir until well mixed.

This is a great dish to serve with turkey and dressing on Thanksgiving.

Just a reminder, we have less than two weeks until Thanksgiving. If you have a Thanksgiving recipe you'd like to share, please post it here.


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