Baked Candied Yams with Bacon (recipe for easy candied yams with canned yams)

Can we agree that everything’s better with bacon? That’s why I decided to upgrade a traditional holiday side dish to take it from bland to brilliant by adding bacon! These buttery baked candied yams have a sweet topping of brown sugar, maple syrup, chopped pecans, and flavorful, wood-smoked Godshall’s Beef Bacon. If you’re looking for a recipe for candied yams with canned yams, candied yams with pecans, baked candied yams with brown sugar, or bacon candied yams, this recipe for easy candied yams will have you covered! Click the Jump to Recipe button above to go straight to the Baked Candied Yams with Bacon recipe at the end of this article, or keep reading to see step-by-step photos and tips for how to get this easy, elevated side dish on your holiday table in about 30 minutes.

This recipe was originally created for a sponsored social media partnership with Godshall’s. All opinions are my own. #GodshallsPartner

More beef bacon recipes like these easy candied yams:

• Beef Bacon and Gruyere Egg Bites
• Skillet Sweet Potato and Beef Bacon Hash
• Slow Cooker Beef Bacon Beer Cheese Dip
• Beef Bacon Corn Dip
• Beef Bacon-Wrapped Spinach-Stuffed Chicken Breasts
• Beef Bacon-Wrapped Steak Bites with Garlic Chimichurri

What you need to make this recipe for candied yams with canned yams

Here are the ingredients you’ll need to make this canned candied yams recipe:

• 1 (29-ounce) can yams, drained
• 1/4 cup butter, cut into pieces
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 4 pieces Godshall’s Beef Bacon, cooked and crumbled. Since beef bacon cooks up crispy like pork bacon, it’s great to use in recipes like these buttery baked candied yams (it truly is #SimplyBetterBacon). Don’t have beef bacon? You can easily substitute pork bacon in this canned candies yams recipe as well.
• 2 tablespoons pecan halves, coarsely chopped
• 1/4 cup maple syrup

How to make this baked candied yams recipe with bacon

You can also watch a video of me making this recipe here, but this bacon candied yams recipe starts with cooking and crumbling your bacon and preheating the oven to 400 degrees F.

Place drained yams from the can in a baking dish.

Add butter pieces evenly on top of the yams.

Next, add brown sugar in an even layer…

…then top with crumbled bacon…

…and chopped pecans.

Drizzle maple syrup on top of the candied yams with pecans.

Bake the candied yams with bacon in the preheated oven until the potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes.

These are such easy candied yams to make!

These baked candied yams are so good that I could eat it as a meal on its own! Look for Godshall’s Beef Bacon in stores near you, and here’s the full recipe for Baked Candied Yams with Bacon.