Sweet Potato Casserole. Evidence ranking
Marshmallow-Pecan Sweet Potato Casserole
#1 among published recipes we could fairly measure. We use this ranking to build The GüdDish when the method is cook-validated.
Ranking verdict
Clear Winner
This recipe pulled away from the rest of the field. The order is stable enough to treat number one as the answer.
#1 ranked recipe
cooking.nytimes.com
· top 1% of 206 analysed
5.00 from 393 ratings
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#1 published Sweet Potato Casserole by GüdScore (as of 2026-08-17): Marshmallow-Pecan Sweet Potato Casserole from cooking.nytimes.com (of 206 rated recipes across 70 sites). Verdict: Clear Winner. That ranking is evidence for building The GüdDish.
Among published Sweet Potato Casserole recipes we could fairly measure, #1 is Marshmallow-Pecan Sweet Potato Casserole from cooking.nytimes.com (206 rated recipes across 70 sites). GüdScore orders them by how far each outperforms its own publisher. That ranking is how we decide what to learn from when we build The GüdDish.
Why it ranked first
This recipe
5.00
cooking.nytimes.com avg
4.51
Ahead of its publisher by 0.48 stars. That gap, not the raw rating alone, drives the rank, because a 4.99 on a site where everything is 4.99 means little.
- 393 people rated it, enough that the score is not resting on a handful of opinions.
- That combination puts it in the top 1% of every Sweet Potato Casserole recipe we analysed.
Runner-up: Sweet Potato Casserole (tastesbetterfromscratch.com), ★ 5.00 from 6,267 ratings.
What this takes
10 ingredients · 7 steps
- 4 large sweet potatoes, scrubbed (about 2 ½ pounds)
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 3 bay leaves, preferably fresh
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more to taste
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus more for greasing pan
- 1 to 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon coarse kosher salt, plus more to taste
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 20 large marshmallows, cut in half lengthwise (about 5 ounces)
- ½ cup roasted salted pecans (see Tip)
The GüdDish · draft · cook QA in progress
GüdDish Sweet Potato Casserole
This is the sweet potato casserole we cook at home when we want the best result without juggling ten tabs. We read the strongest recipes we could find, kept the ingredients and techniques that overlap again and again, and cut the rest. What is left is one combined method: the best of the best, easy to handle, easy to run, and built to come out right every time.
serves 4 to 6
70 min total
4 steps
Needs cook QA
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Full evidence ranking
Showing 10 of a 10-slot list for this dish’s pool of 206 scored recipes. First 10 clear the full CrowdScore floor (at least 15 ratings and 4.5+ stars), ordered by how far each beats its own publisher after we adjust for rating volume. Star ratings and counts are the publisher’s public evidence when present. Close places can still reverse with more data.
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1Marshmallow-Pecan Sweet Potato Casserole5.00 from 393 ratings
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2Sweet Potato Casserole5.00 from 6,267 ratings
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3Sweet Potato Casserole5.00 from 2,362 ratings
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4Sweet Potato Casserole4.99 from 216 ratings
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5Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe4.98 from 256 ratings
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6Kim's Sweet Potato Casserole4.89 from 112 ratings
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7Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe4.99 from 114 ratings
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8Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe4.92 from 169 ratings
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9Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe5.00 from 82 ratings
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10Pecan Sweet Potato Casserole5.00 from 62 ratings
Major publishers (ratings not CrowdScore-verified)
Some major publishers show star totals without review-level data we can audit. Those aggregates never enter CrowdScore. They can still appear here as honest publisher claims or as method references. Below: top claims for this dish.
Behind the evidence
206Recipes rated
70Sites
26,610Ratings
Very highOrdering confidence
What enters GüdScore
We only put a recipe in GüdScore when we can check the evidence behind its rating at the review level. Sites that only publish closed aggregate stars, without recoverable reviews, stay outside that score rather than being quietly down-weighted. Where we can rebuild ratings from raw public reviews, we do that before a recipe competes. Full methodology: How GüdScore works.
FAQ
What is the best Sweet Potato Casserole recipe?
#1 published Sweet Potato Casserole by GüdScore (as of 2026-08-17): Marshmallow-Pecan Sweet Potato Casserole from cooking.nytimes.com (of 206 rated recipes across 70 sites). Verdict: Clear Winner. That ranking is evidence for building The GüdDish.
How does GüdDish pick a winner?
We search the open web for methods, measure rated recipes with GüdScore (evidence engine), study ingredients and techniques that set the strongest ones apart, then build one GüdDish. GüdScore does not hand you a single best recipe alone. Details: https://guddish.com/method.html
What does the verdict mean?
The Rank verdict describes the published-recipe competition, not a grade for The GüdDish. Clear Winner means number one is well ahead. Close Contest, Photo Finish, and Split Decision mean the top recipes are hard to separate. Limited corpus means we analyzed fewer recipes than a mature dish.
Why are some big publishers missing from GüdScore?
GüdScore only includes ratings we can audit at the review level. Sites that only expose closed aggregate scores, without recoverable review data, stay outside that score. Their recipes may still inform technique. See How GüdDish works for the full rules.
How often is this updated?
This page’s data was last scored or re-synced on 2026-08-17.
The public Rank is the top 10. The rest of the scored pool lives in the JSON API, not on this page.