If you’ve never experienced the magic of an Outback Steakhouse Sweet Potato, you’re missing one of the restaurant’s most beloved side dishes. This expertly baked sweet potato comes topped with a heavenly combination of real honey butter, warm cinnamon, and rich brown sugar that transforms a simple vegetable into pure comfort food bliss.
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Why This Recipe Works
Outback Steakhouse has perfected the art of the sweet potato by combining the natural sweetness of perfectly baked sweet potatoes with a luxurious honey butter that uses real butter (not margarine like some restaurants). The magic happens when the warm, fluffy sweet potato flesh meets the creamy honey butter, creating pockets of sweet, buttery goodness enhanced by aromatic cinnamon and caramelized brown sugar.
Ingredients
Here’s a list of what you need:
- Sweet potatoes – The star ingredient, providing natural sweetness and creamy texture when properly baked
- Butter – Creates the rich, creamy base for the honey butter topping
- Honey – Adds natural sweetness and floral notes that complement the sweet potato
- Dark brown sugar – Provides deep molasses flavor and caramelized sweetness
- Ground cinnamon – Contributes warm spice that enhances the natural sweetness
Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes are super easy to cook. It’s best to get several of them in approximately the same size so that they will cook uniformly.
When you bake sweet potatoes, they tend to ooze a bit of sweet sticky liquid. To make clean-up a snap, line your baking pan or dish with some parchment paper or foil.
How to Make Outback Sweet Potatoes
- Wash the sweet potatoes and wrap each one with foil.
- Place foil-covered sweet potatoes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or foil.
- Bake the sweet potatoes at 375 degrees for approximately one hour, or until you can easily pierce the potatoes with a fork.
- While the potatoes are baking, use a mixer to mix together the butter and honey.
- Remove the foil and split the sweet potatoes open with a knife.
- Top the sweet potatoes with brown sugar, cinnamon, and a scoop of honey butter.
The Outback Steakhouse Sweet Potato makes a great side dish. You can bake them ahead of time. Then when you get home from work, simply reheat them just before serving. They make a delicious treat after a hard day in the office.
Make-Ahead Instructions
- Perfect for meal prep: Bake sweet potatoes up to 3 days in advance. Store wrapped in refrigerator and reheat in 350°F oven for 10-15 minutes before serving.
- Honey butter prep: Make honey butter up to 1 week ahead and store covered in refrigerator. Bring to room temperature before serving.
Storage & Reheating Instructions
- Refrigerator Storage: Store baked sweet potatoes wrapped in foil for up to 4 days
- Reheating Method: Reheat wrapped potatoes in 350°F oven for 10-15 minutes until warmed through. Microwave option: pierce skin and heat for 2-3 minutes
- Freezing: Baked sweet potatoes can be frozen for up to 6 months. Thaw overnight before reheating
Love Outback Steakhouse? Try these copycat recipes!
- Alice Springs Quesadilla
- Bloomin Onion Recipe
- Outback Cheese Fries
- Outback Mac and Cheese
- Fresh Steamed Green Beans
- Outback Walkabout Soup
- Outback Steakhouse Alice Springs Chicken
Favorite copycat sweet potato recipes
- Boston Market Sweet Potato Casserole
- La Comedia Sweet Potato Souffle
- Red Lobster Whipped Sweet Potatoes
Be sure to check out more vegetable side dish recipes and the best Outback copycat recipes right here on CopyKat.com!
Outback Sweet Potato Easy Copycat Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 sweet potatoes about 6 ounces each, washed
- 2 cups butter softened
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 tablespoon dark brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Wrap each sweet potato with aluminum foil and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for approximately 1 hour, until easily pierced with a fork.
- While the potatoes are baking, use a mixer to thoroughly combine the butter and honey until you achieve a uniform texture.
- When the potatoes have finished baking, remove the foil and split the potatoes open with a knife; do not cut the potatoes completely in half. Top with brown sugar, cinnamon, and a scoop of honey butter.
- Store any leftover honey butter in the refrigerator.
Sooo good and taste better than Outback! Thanks so much for sharing the recipe!
These taste just like Outback! Delicious!
The topping is so yummy! Great flavors!
I loved these! SO easy and so good!
A perfect sweet potato. Great tip to line your baking pan.
That honey- cinnamon butter gets me every time- so good!
This looks very delicious and it will be very nice with the steak. Thanks
So simple and delicious! I can’t wait to make these again!!!
So the recipe for honey cinnamon butter calls for 2 tbs of honey cinnamon butter?