Please Try My Sweet Potato Pie

CookETC's Note:

Calling all pie lovers and seasoned bakers. I would love your opinions on this sweet potato pie recipe. It was my first attempt and I thought it came out really good, but I would greatly appreciate objective and honest comments and reviews. The "Basic Flaky Pie Crust" recipe came from another website and I didn't change a thing (in my opinion, the crust was perfect!) For the filling, I read several recipes, tweaked them each a tad and settled on a combination that I thought might work. So, please try my sweet potato pie....and let me know what you think. I value your opinions.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 30 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Yield: 1 pie

CRUST

• 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup shortening , chilled
• 3 tablespoons ice water

FILLING

• 1 (15 ounce) can cut sweet potatoes , drained and mashed
• 2 tablespoons butter , softened
• ½ cup white sugar
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup evaporated milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon flour
• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• ½ teaspoon plus 2 dashes ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

1. PIE CRUST:.
2. Whisk the flour and salt together in a medium size bowl.
3. Cut in the cold shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
4. Drizzle 2 to 3 tablespoons ice water over flour.
5. Toss mixture with a fork to moisten, adding more water a few drops at a time until the dough comes together.
6. Gently gather dough particles together into a ball, then wrap in plastic wrap and chill for at least 30 minutes before rolling.
7. Roll out dough, and put in an 8 1/4" x 1 1/4" foil pie plate.
8. FILLING:.
9. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
10. Place well drained sweet potatoes in medium sized mixing bowl.
11. Add softened butter and mix well with mixer.
12. Stir in sugars, evaporated milk, eggs, flour, nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla.
13. Beat on medium speed until mixture is smooth.
14. Pour filling into the unbaked pie crust.
15. Bake at 350 degrees for 60 minutes, or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.

Reviews

[petlover]

I looked through alot of recipes before choosing this one. This is a great recipe-made the crust the day before ( Marha Stewarts no fail recipe) otherwise I followed the recipe. Thanks Cooketc.