Rookie Thanksgiving: Sweet Potatoes

Oh sweet potatoes, I love you.  So, there was lots of interest in how these would look when I posted the recipe last week.  And here's the step by step for Kate's Thanksgiving Yam Balls. 

Take your boiled (or in my case, canned yams because I was too lazy to peel and boil sweet potatoes) sweet potatoes and mash them up with butter and brown sugar. 

 Take your marshmallow and form a ball of sweet potato around the marshmallow.  This is where you forgive my terrible photography focus - I changed the focus features on my camera in order to have better control and can't remember how to change it back.  The result is 100% control over what's in focus when I'm taking pictures, but a lot of blurry pictures when I hand the camera to B or set the timer function.  Oh well.

You stick your yams in a baking dish and freeze them.  I only froze them for an hour before baking and they hold their form much better if you freeze them for at least a day.

And here's the finished product - an individual yam ball for everyone.  They're so flipping good.



Mr. B's family does candied yams - and they're so good, too.  The flavors are all the same, the form and texture is really the only difference. 

Anyone going to give yam balls a try this year (please freeze them for 24 hours so they don't crack like mine did)?  What other recipes do you all love?