Food Recipes Baked Sweet Potatoes 3.1 (2,489) 9 Reviews Baking sweet potatoes intensifies their sweetness, so they're pretty much ready to eat as soon as they come out of the oven; if you're hankering for a way to enhance the natural sugars, try drizzling the potatoes with maple syrup, or topping with brown sugar, cinnamon, and freshly grated orange zest. For a more savory dinner, top with caramelized onions, or garlicky chickpeas with feta and fresh herbs. By Jenna Helwig Jenna Helwig Jenna is the food director at Real Simple and the author of Bare Minimum Dinners, a cookbook featuring more than 100 low-lift, high-reward recipes. Previously, Jenna was the food director at Health and Parents. She is also the founder and operator of Rosaberry, a boutique personal chef services company, and the author of four other cookbooks, including the bestselling Baby-Led Feeding. Real Simple's Editorial Guidelines Updated on August 21, 2022 Save Rate PRINT Share Hands On Time: 5 mins Total Time: 50 mins Servings: 6 Jump to Nutrition Facts Cook Mode (Keep screen awake) Ingredients 6 medium sweet potatoes, unpeeled 6 tablespoons unsalted butter ½ teaspoon kosher salt ⅛ teaspoon black pepper Directions Heat oven to 400° F. Pierce each sweet potato several times with the tines of a fork. Place the sweet potatoes on a rimmed baking sheet lined with foil. Bake until tender, about 45 minutes. Make a slit in the top of each sweet potato. Top with 1 tablespoon of butter and season with the salt and pepper. Joy Skipper/Getty Images Rate It Print Nutrition Facts (per serving) 214 Calories 12g Fat 26g Carbs 2g Protein Show Full Nutrition Label Hide Full Nutrition Label Nutrition Facts Servings Per Recipe 6 Calories 214 % Daily Value * Total Fat 12g 15% Saturated Fat 7g 35% Cholesterol 31mg 10% Sodium 230mg 10% Total Carbohydrate 26g 9% Total Sugars 5g Protein 2g 4% *The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.