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Photo provided by ButterballSet up a Sweet Potato Bar and let guests select the toppings for their baked sweet potatoes.

Sweet Potato Bar

Serves 8. Recipe is from Butterball.

8 whole sweet potatoes

Toppings (Choose as many as you’d like or think of your own.)

1 cup toasted pecans or walnuts

1 cup firmly packed light or dark brown sugar

1 cup cinnamon maple butter

1 cup shredded coconut, toasted

1 cup turkey bacon, cooked, drained and crumbled

1 cup minimarshmallows

1 cup sweetened dried cranberries

Cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Pierce the sweet potatoes with a fork in several places.

3. Place potatoes about 2 inches apart on foil-lined baking pan. Bake 40 to 60 minutes or until the tip of a knife is easily inserted into potatoes.

4. Split the tops of the potatoes using the tines of a fork, pushing the ends slightly to open. Arrange on a platter.

5. Place the toppings in small serving dishes. Arrange around the sweet potatoes or on the table so guests can top their potatoes as they choose.