# Candy Yams

These are the best candy yams I've ever made.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Side
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- Sweet potatoes
- Ground Nutmeg
- Ground Cinnamon
- Pure Vanilla Extract
- Brown sugar
- 1 Orange
- Sugar
- 1 stick Butter

## Instructions

1. Slice up sweet potatoes.
2. Add half a stick of butter to a pan.
3. Add some sugar.
4. Add some brown sugar.
5. Mix that together.
6. Add the second half of the butter.
7. Add a little nutmeg.
8. Keep mixing because the heat is on.
9. Pop in some vanilla.
10. Add some cinnamon.
11. Keep adding all those ingredients over and over again until it tastes like perfection.
12. Add in the sweet potatoes.
13. Fold the sweet potatoes into the sauce and let it simmer and candy those yams.

## Equipment

- Pan
- Whisk
- Spatula

## Tips

- Normally, the person who made the video bakes the yams, using the same ingredients, but for this recipe, the stove-top method was used and the person making the video will never go back to baked yams.
- The orange was added while everything was simmering.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8kTWy3L/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/8d861d30-93af-4e18-8cff-c0f8284c83a2
- Extracted: 2025-08-12

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