Southern candy yums with marshmallows. Sweet potato dishes are an essential part of any holiday feast. Candied, mashed, or combined with casserole ingredients, there are many ways to prepare yams or sweet potatoes. While true yams are a completely different vegetable, orange-fleshed sweet potatoes are often labeled "yams" to differentiate them from lighter flesh sweet potatoes.

They make beautiful candied yams, and they are also nice and sweet! I like buying medium sized yams because they are easier to deal with when it comes to peeling & cutting. These candied yams with marshmallows (or without) are a must for Thanksgiving! You can cook Southern candy yums with marshmallows using 11 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Southern candy yums with marshmallows

You need 3 of Large yums.
Prepare 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
You need 1/2 cup of light corn syrup.
It's 1/4 cup of brown sugar.
Prepare 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of allspice ground.
You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
You need 1/4 tsp of ground nutmeg.
Prepare 1/3 cup of orange juice.
Prepare 4 tbsp of butter.
You need 2 cup of water.

With a simple sweet syrup, cinnamon and a hint of vanilla, these sweet potatoes are a classic. Add mini marshmallows and bake for a holiday favorite everyone will love. Guys, I totally meant to post this before Thanksgiving but, well. Here in The South, the terms "sweet potatoes" and "yams" are used synonymously, as one and the same, though most often, when a recipe calls for "yams" they are often referring to canned sweet potatoes.

Southern candy yums with marshmallows instructions

Wash and peel yums cut yums in chucks, add water to the pot boil for 20 minutes remove yums from the the pot place them in a baking dish , use the same pot with the water you used from the yums add sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup , vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, all spice ,orange juice boil till thick add butter pour over yums add marshmellows on top bake 325 for 20 to 25 minutes..

If you look carefully, somewhere in small type on the label of yams, you'll usually find the words "sweet potatoes." I mixed yams and brown sugar together and then topped with the butter & marshmallows. I used more marshmallows then the recipe called for and I think that along with the smashing of the yams prevented them from melting into the yams too much. The fact is, what makes a delicious southern candied sweet potato is the sweet syrup mixture composed of butter and sugar that gets doused over the slices of sweet potatoes. This is a baked candied sweet potato recipe which makes the sweet potatoes super tender but with the slightest hint of bite. So this candied yams recipe is generational.