Smoked Sweet Potatoes with Cinnamon Maple Butter
On November 11, 2019 (Updated May 11, 2024)
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These Smoked Sweet Potatoes are easy to make and are topped with a delicious cinnamon maple butter! After one bite of these, you may never bake russet potatoes again. The extra sweet goodness from the sweet potatoes will have you scraping out every last bite.
Smoked Sweet Potatoes
Smoking sweet potatoes are a delicious alternative to cooking up the same old baked potatoes. They also make a delicious option for special occasions, Sunday dinner, and Thanksgiving. I personally love these as a quick side for a weekend meal, as they require only 6 ingredients and they’re easy to make.
Smoked Whole Sweet Potato
Now, I’ve talked plenty about slicing sweet potatoes and then cooking them. Just check out my other posts on Grilled Sweet Potatoes (these guys are sliced and served with a tasty dipping sauce), Candied Sweet Potato Stacks (hello delicious Thanksgiving side!), and even my Smoked Potato Dog Chews (your canine friends will love these!), but a smoked whole sweet potato brings a whole new level of tastiness to your dinner.
Simply salting your sweet potato and sticking it on the smoker gives you the most amazing, soft, and beautifully steamed side for any meal you have planned.
How to Smoke Sweet Potatoes
These sweet potatoes are extremely easy to smoke. No fancy footwork here, my friends. All you need is sweet potatoes, olive oil, salt, and smoke (oh and 3 ingredients for the maple cinnamon butter, but we’re still at less than 6 ingredients for these tasty taters!). So here’s how you’re gonna make some smoked sweet potato magic:
- Get the smoke going. Preheat your smoker (I cooked these using my Camp Chef SmokePro) at 250 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Prep the sweet potatoes. Wash and dry the sweet potatoes. Pierce them with a fork multiple times on each side. Rub olive oil all over the outside of the potatoes and season with coarse salt.
- Smoke! Place your sweet potatoes directly on the grill grates, close the lid, and smoke for around 2 hours. You can also determine doneness when the potatoes pierce evenly with a fork and have an internal temperature of 210 degrees F.
- Make the maple cinnamon butter. In a small bowl, whisk all the ingredients for the butter (softened butter, maple syrup, and cinnamon).
- Enjoy! When the sweet potatoes have finished cooking, cut them open, fluff the insides, and top with a heaping spoonful of the maple cinnamon butter. Careful! These guys are going to be hot and extremely addictive.
How Long to Smoke Sweet Potatoes
It takes approximately 2 hours to smoke sweet potatoes. This time will vary depending on the size and thickness of your sweet potatoes and the consistency of the temperature on the smoker.
Your whole sweet potatoes are done when they all pierce easily and evenly with a fork. You can also pull out your trusty meat thermometer and pull these off the smoker when they have reached an internal temperature of 210 degrees F.
Other Thanksgiving Sides
Looking to make up the best Thanksgiving in the history of ever? These other Thanksgiving sides will help get you there. Combine that with my amazing Smoked Turkey recipe, and you’re in for an award-winning feast.
Smoked Turkey Gravy
Smoked Mashed Potatoes
Bacon Wrapped Maple Glazed Carrots
Smoked Sweet Potatoes Recipe
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Smoked Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
Maple Cinnamon Butter
- 8 Tablespoons salted butter softenend
- 4 Tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat your smoker to 250 degrees F.
- Wash and dry your sweet potatoes. Pierce them with a fork on all sides. Drizzle with olive oil, and rub all over the skin of the sweet potatoes. Season the sweet potatoes on all sides with the salt.
- Place the potatoes on the smoker, close the lid, and smoke for 2 hours, or until the potatoes pierce evenly with a fork. A perfectly cooked sweet potato will have an internal temperature of 210 degrees F. so aim for your potatoes to be between 205-215 degrees F.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the salted butter, maple syrup, and cinnamon. Set aside.
- Remove the sweet potatoes to a serving platter, split your potatoes open with a knife, fluff the insides with a fork, and top with a spoonful of the maple cinnamon butter.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Omygoodness this is the best recipe ever for sweet potatoes hands down! We tried this on this past Thanksgiving and everyone raved about how delicious they were. I don’t want to have sweet potatoes any other way. It was so easy to prepare, and our guest wanted the recipe. I also doubled the Maple Cinnamon Butter so there was plenty to go around, plus I wanted to have some to put on waffles or pancakes. I highly recommend this recipe.
We made these last year for Thanksgiving. It was a success! This year we are going to another family members home. They would like us to bring them. Do you think it would work to smoke them the day or maybe morning before to a lesser temperature and then finish them off in the oven at their house?
They came out very well. I did find out, however, while my wife likes the smoke flavor on the food, it gives her heartburn. I’m considering making one of the pork tenderloins and half the sweet potatoes in the oven for my wife, and the other tenderloin and rest of the sweet potatoes on the smoker with pecan pellets.
We loved these smoked Sweet Potatoes! I only had pecan pellets on hand, and they tasted fantastic. I actually added chopped pecans to the top of the cinnamon maple butter and it reinforced the Pecan flavor.
What wood is best for smoking these sweet potatoes?
Fruit woods! I like cherry or apple.
I modified the maple cinnamon butter recipe a little . Used pumpkin pie spice instead of cinnamon and whipped in a half-cup of powdered sugar and one tablespoon of heavy cream. We used it on french toast this morning. Yum!
Well that sounds absolutely delicious! Why haven’t I thought to use the butter on breakfast??!! Genius.
First time posting tonight I made the smoked sweet potatoes with you smoked rib recipe and as an added touch, I also made your grilled asparagus. So far every single recipe I have tried from site has been magnificent and I do not think that I will venture anywhere else. Thanks for sharing!
What wood flavor do you like to use? Pecan? Hickory?
I plan to use apple tomorrow. I will let you know how they turn out.