Maple Walnut Sweet Potato Skins By Kelly Miller • September13,2016 • Updated February 15, 2020 • Leave a Comment 2.8K Jump to Recipe These delicious Maple Walnut Sweet Potato Skins are the perfect appetizer recipe or side dish this fall! Oven roasted sweet potatoes with brown sugar, walnuts, and spices! If I’m being completely honest here, my love for sweet potatoes is about equal to my love of pumpkins. Only, I think I enjoy sweet potatoes just a notch more because no one takes a second thought to having sweet potatoes at any time of the year. Pumpkin anything is weird in the spring and summer, but not sweet potatoes! We pretty regularly have roasted sweet potato wedges as a side dish here for dinner – year round. Sweet potatoes go so well with sandwiches of any kind! And when I say “we” I mean me, Silas, and Wesley. Actually Reuben, too! He loves his sweet potato baby food and in less than a month, he’ll be primarily eating mashed up/diced up versions of what we’re having for dinner each night. Toddler-hood, here we come! For reasons I can’t quite understand, Paul can’t stand sweet potatoes. When he came home and saw these amazing, delicious, mouth-watering sweet potato skins cooling on the stove, he flinched. FLINCHED I tell you! Needless to say, I purposefully plan on cooking sweet potatoes during nights when I know he has a late meeting or he’ll be in class. He loves all things pumpkin, but can’t stand sweet potato – I know, it’s a real head-scratcher. Of course you know where I stand! Add in brown sugar, spices, and chopped walnuts to top them off… no main dish needed for me! I really, really love this recipe because it’s so versatile and I could see these being served at many different occasions. I wouldn’t hesitate to serve this along with a roast for a weeknight dinner, they would be a great fall party appetizer, and I could certainly see these on a Thanksgiving table as an alternative to the sweet potato casserole. Oh who am I kidding, I’d want both these AND the sweet potato casserole! 😉 If you liked this Maple Walnut Sweet Potato Skins recipe, leave a rating and a comment below this post! Maple Walnut Sweet Potato Skins Maple Walnut Sweet Potato Skins recipe with roasted sweet potatoes, cinnamon, brown sugar, walnuts, and maple syrup. No ratings yet Print Pin Rate Course: AppetizerCuisine: AmericanKeyword: recipe for sweet potato skins Prep Time: 20 minutes minutesCook Time: 1 hour hour 15 minutes minutes Servings: 12 skins Calories: 225kcal Author: Kelly Miller Ingredients▢ 6 medium sweet potatoes▢ 1/2 cup cream cheese softened▢ 1/3 cup sour cream▢ 1/4 cup brown sugar plus 2 tbsp, divided▢ 1 tsp cinnamon divided▢ 1 tsp ground cloves divided▢ 2 tbsp butter melted▢ 3/4 cup chopped walnuts▢ maple syrup to drizzle InstructionsPrick sweet potatoes several times with a fork.Place on a lined cookie sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 45 minutes - 1 hour, or until tender. Cool.Slice sweet potatoes in half lengthwise and scoop potatoes into the bowl of a stand mixer, being careful to keep skins in tact.Mix sweet potatoes on medium speed until creamy.Add in cream cheese, sour cream, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon each of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.Scoop filling back into skins evenly.In a small bowl, stir together butter, reminaining 1/4 cup brown sugar, walnuts, and remaining 1/2 teaspoon each of spices.Sprinkle evenly over filling in skins.Return to oven and bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.Allow to cool slightly. Serve with a drizzle of maple syrup, if desired. NutritionCalories: 225kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 19mg | Sodium: 116mg | Potassium: 441mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 16256IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 64mg | Iron: 1mg Tried this recipe?Follow me @mostlyhomemademom or tag #MostlyHomemadeMom! 2.8K