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"I am always on the lookout for a good sweet potato pie recipe and usually make at least 2 different kids every Thanksgiving and Christmas. This is a good one from Debbi Field's cookbook, Great American Desserts."

Ingredients: eggs, evaporated milk...

"Just goes to show ya, potatoes are awesome, even as candy!"

Ingredients: whole pecans, confectioners' sugar...

"This tasty pie will surprise your guests, who will have no idea how well pineapple and sweet potatoes go together. If sweet potatoes are hard to find, substitute 1 can (16 oz.) pumpkin instead."

Ingredients: cinnamon, pastry shells...

"After a rich fish curry meal, serve this sweetmeat with black coffee. I haven't made this yet. It was recently given to me by a friend. It looks different but good and I can't wait to try it. Note: This does call for cashews. Posted for Zaar World Tour 05."

Ingredients: ground cardamom, rose water...

"I lived in the deep south for over 20 years and have tasted hundreds of sweet potato pies. This is the best recipe I've tried. It's the only one I make now. I find the flavor more complex if you bake the sweet potatoes instead of boiling them. Baking them in a slow oven until they begin to caramelize really brings out their flavor."

Ingredients: cinnamon, eggs...

"My grandmother made this very rich candy every year at Christmas for my father. I've never been able to make it exactly like hers because she didn't use a "recipe". Her recipes called for a little of this and a pinch of that. I'm sorry I don't have prep times and serving amount is a guess as these vary. It depends on how large..."

Ingredients: chocolate chips, coconut...

"Celebrate Valentine's Day with this outstanding old-fashioned cake! Its texture is fantastic thanks to the incorporation of mashed potatoes into the batter! From Becky Low, who calls the cake "an old family favorite, which dates back to Grandmother's young days. It is a red tinted chocolate cake with a smooth moist texture and a luscious..."

Ingredients: eggs, cocoa...

"Got this one off of about.com's Southern Food forum. Haven't tried these, but I'm posting this for all the sweet potato addicts here!"

Ingredients: eggs, mashed sweet potatoes...

"So good, and surprisingly different from pumpkin!"

Ingredients: eggs, mashed sweet potatoes...

"This is a soft, lemony cookie I found in a Pillsbury cookbook."

Ingredients: instant mashed potatoes, eggs...

"This is an internet recipe from an inn in Maine. They look delicios. The cook time is acually the time for dipping. It is just a quess."

Ingredients: chocolate chips, confectioners' sugar...

"a favorite recipe here at Christmas. One of my grandmothers recipes dating back to early 1900s"

Ingredients: chocolate chips, icing sugar...

"The absolute best sweet potato pie recipe around. I have been making this forever. It has a fantastic flaky, melt-in-your-mouth cornmeal crust, with a delicious streusel topping...this is well-worth the effort to prepare, and actually is not hard to make, just takes a bit of time."

Ingredients: cinnamon, cloves, cornmeal...

"Needhams are typical to Maine. They originated in Portland, Maine by a candy maker who had attended an evangelistic service in Portland in 1872. The evangelist's name was the Rev. George C. Needham and because of many conversions, his name was on everyone's lips. When the candy maker came back to his shop after one of the services, his candy..."

Ingredients: chocolate chips, confectioners' sugar...