55 Classic Christmas Dinner Recipes

Can I make the sauce and pour over uncooked sweet potatoes the day before then bake the day of?

I made this for Thanksgiving. My only questions is.....the recipe calls for 2 "pints" of heavy whipping cream and I had an enormous amount of whipped cream....lots leftover I could not pipe on the cake. Should that measure have been 2 cups instead of 2 pints?