Baked Sweet Potatoes (like Lone Star Steakhouse's)

-sweet potatoes or yams (raw)

-whipped butter (Land-O-Lakes sells some, really, you want "whipped", it's sweeter)

-cinnamon/sugar or brown sugar

1- Scrub potatoes and wrap in tin foil.

2- Bake at 300°F for 6 hours (slow cooker on high also works). You can do it at a higher temperature for less time (like a regular baked potato), but it'll come out hard like a regular baked potato. Make sure to put a pan (or flat sheet of tin foil) on the rack under the rack with the potatoes, because it seems no matter how well I wrap them, they leak.

3- When done, cut open, spread with butter and then with sugar.

We like to peel the skin off and stir the butter and sugar in.

I prefer the brown sugar to the cinnamon/sugar, but Lone Star uses the cinnamon.

I frequently buy just one jumbo sweet potato (since they're usually cheaper) and it's big enough to be the side dish for our whole family.