Slow Cooker Candied Sweet Potatoes don’t get any easier or more satisfying. Sweet potatoes cook low and slow (freeing up your oven!) and get drizzled with a sweet glaze! This may quite possibly be be the most satisfying sweet potatoes I’ve ever tasted. And I’m so excited to finally share it with you!

Candied sweet potatoes has always been a side dish at my childhood Thanksgiving table.

Although my mom’s weren’t made in a slow cooker, they still were loaded with brown sugar and butter so yeah, they’re pretty fabulous. And my sweet tooth approved.

If you recall, last year I hosted my first Thanksgiving. I kept things old-school with roast turkey, mashed potatoes, broccoli casserole, dinner rolls and since my father-in-law loves candied sweet potatoes I made him my go-to recipe. I wanted to blog it but there simply wasn’t enough time to do it. So I waited almost an entire year to share it with you.

I don’t know about you but I have limited stove top and oven space once I stuff the bird into the oven and get going on all those side dishes. Because of this, I needed to bust out my slow cooker and put it to use. And candied sweet potatoes are made to be slow cooked.

Simply prep it, set it and forget it.

To Make These Slow Cooker Candied Sweet Potatoes Gather:

sweet potatoes
granulated sugar (white)
brown sugar
kosher salt
unsalted butter
vanilla extract
cornstarch
water
chopped toasted pecans.

First peel around 3-1/2 to 4 pounds sweet potatoes. Next, place them into your slow cooker, sprinkle with a cup of each granulated and dark brown sugar. Then throw in 1/4 teaspoon of kosher salt and drizzle everything with a stick (!!!) of unsalted butter and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract.

You can toss it all together or not, it’s up to you. 😉 Cover, set to low and cook for 6 hours.

Lastly pour in a half cup of the vanilla/brown sugar/butter mixture into a small sauce pan. Heat to medium high and bring it to a boil and whisk in 2 teaspoons of cornstarch that has been mixed with 2 teaspoons water. This will thicken that glaze up perfectly so you can pour all over those sweet potatoes.