Honey Butter Smashed Sweet Potatoes 🍯🍠 Soft, tender sweet potatoes with crispy skin and HEAVENLY melted honey butter on top! An EASY comfort food side dish that’s perfect anytime!
Easy Honey Butter Smashed Sweet Potato Recipe
- How I love sweet potatoes. Let me count the ways.
- This sweet potato side dish is great because the edges crisp up slightly while the interior stays buttery soft and there’s honey butter on top. Swoon.
- They’re a cinch to make and you don’t need to bother peeling them. Since you don’t have to wait for a whole potato to cook, they’re faster which makes them a nice option for a weeknight dinner side dish.
- They remind me of these Honey-Roasted Sweet Potatoes, which are a personal and reader favorite. Both this recipe and that one read sweeter rather than more savory.
Ingredients in Honey Butter Smashed Sweet Potato
- Sweet potatoes: No need to peel them before slicing and baking! The skins crisp up beautifully and add extra texture.
- Olive oil: Helps the sweet potatoes turn golden and crispy as they bake.
- Unsalted butter, honey, and cinnamon: These make the sweet, buttery topping that pairs perfectly with the sweet potatoes. For a vegan version, use plant-based butter and pure maple syrup instead of honey.
- Optional toppings: A sprinkle of brown sugar, salt, or extra cinnamon adds even more flavor. For a savory twist, skip the honey butter and top with crumbled bacon, green onions, sour cream, or your favorite potato toppings.
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Smashed Sweet Potatoes
- Slice sweet potatoes into 1.5-inch rounds, then place on a baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil, then bake until fork tender.
- Using a fork, lightly mash the potatoes but don’t go overboard because you want them to stay intact. Return baking sheet to the oven and bake until they crisp up a bit.
- After potatoes are done, add a bit of honey butter to the center of each, and optionally add a pinch of salt to the top of each.
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Honey Butter Smashed Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil for easier cleanup; set aside.
- Add potato slices to baking sheet (if using a medium potato, you can quarter it; if using a large, make about 5 rounds)
- Evenly drizzle the olive oil over the potatoes and toss with your hands to evenly coat.
- Bake for about 30 minutes or until potatoes are fork-tender, or nearly so, in the center.
- Flip and bake for about more 5 minutes, or as needed until they’re fork tender.
- Using a fork, lightly mash the potatoes but don’t go overboard because you want them to stay intact.
- Return baking sheet to the oven and bake for another 5 to 10 minutes, or until they crisp up a bit or as desired.
- While potatoes bake, prepare the honey butter (or make this Creamy Honey Cinnamon Dip) by adding the butter and desired amount of honey to a small bowl, optionally add the cinnamon, and stir to combine; set aside until potatoes are done.
- After potatoes are done, add a bit of honey butter to the center of each, and optionally add a pinch of salt to the top of each.
- Serve immediately. Potatoes are best warm and fresh.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I couldn’t really tell by the pictures and maybe a silly questions but how are the sliced? Like which direction? Thanks.
Horizontally down the sweet potato into discs and then smashed.
Love sweet potatoes!! These sound amazing!
Thanks :) I love sweet potatoes too!
Sweet potatoes are on of my favorite foods! I usually eat mine with a tiny dab of butter and a heavy dose of cinnamon.
Heavy dose of cinnamon sounds right up my alley too!
I totally need to try this. That butter though!!!
Honey butter makes everything that much better!
I could eat sweet potatoes for every meal. LOVE the honey butter!!
Same! :) P.S. I love that you are posting desserts in January…thank you!
Those look all kinds of amazing. I’m a sucker for sweet potatoes.
Thank you! Happy New Year! :)
These sound so delicious!
Rachael xx.
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I have sweet potatoes and am making these sometime this week. They look easy and delicious!!
Wonderful! Let me know what you think!
I love these!! The prep is a little quicker than dicing or making fries. I made a honey – cinnamon-PB spread and had some for breakfast then warmed the rest tonight and tried the honey cinnamon butter. Both were excellent!
I’m glad you loved them and yes they’re a little quicker than dicing fries because they’re kept chunkier. Your honey – cinnamon-PB spread sounds amazing! I bet it’s heavenly on these!