The Surprising 3-Ingredient Sweet Potato Recipe I Make Every January

When January rolls around, I like to take things easy in the kitchen. After the highs (and the lows) that come with the holiday season, I’m all for lazy cooking and tend to stick with delicious, super-easy, tried-and-true recipes. 

That’s where this brilliant dessert comes in. If you already love sweet potato casserole with those itty bitty marshmallows, this will be right up your alley. (And if you don’t, I’m here to make you a believer.) Introducing one of my favorite 3-ingredient desserts: a roasted sweet potato topped with fluffy whipped cream and toasted chopped nuts. 

This easy dessert is creamy, slightly crunchy, pleasantly sweet, and altogether so much greater than the sum of its parts. Even better, it uses ingredients you probably already have — a sweet potato, whipped cream (or heavy cream if you like making your own), and roasted nuts of some sort — and the oven does all the work for you.