Addictive Sweet Potato Pie

"I've been making this pie for over 30 years and I still love it, preferring it to pumpkin any day. I make it every holiday and lots of times inbetween. I take it w/ me for lunch and my kids enjoyed it in their lunchboxes back in the day. I hope you all enjoy it as much as we have! UPDATE: Taking the advice of a friend (Thanks, Julie!) I skipped the crust and poured the filling into a well-buttered pie pan and baked as usual. Not only is it easier, there are less fat and carbs too! Besides... everyone likes the filling best anyway... :D"
 
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Ready In:
50mins
Ingredients:
9
Serves:
6-8
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ingredients

  • 1 unbaked pastry shell, preferably deep dish
  • 1 12 cups mashed cooked sweet potatoes (boil in skin til fork tender, cool, peel, and mash)
  • 1 cup evaporated milk
  • 12 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 12 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 14 teaspoon allspice
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3 eggs, slightly beaten
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directions

  • Combine mashed sweet potato, milk, sugar, spices, vanilla, and eggs in bowl; stir til blended. (I use a hand mixer.).
  • Turn into pie shell.
  • Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes; reduce heat to 350 and continue baking for 30 minutes.
  • Cool on rack; refrigerate.

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Reviews

  1. I used orange fleshed jewel "yams", not sweet potatoes. For the evaporated milk, equal parts heavy cream and half and half were substituted. Prepared this crust:Recipe #187689 and used freshly ground allspice and freshly grated nutmeg.Mmmmm! Easy to make, too! Thank you for posting. Much better than pumpkin pie.
     
  2. This pie was wonderful.. it was a big hit with family and friends. i did make a little... i love butter.... so i added 1/2 stick of butter and it was fantastic. This will be my recipe for all holidays. Thanks so much!
     
  3. Iwant to thank you soooo much, I think this is the recipe Ivé been looking for. I baked it this am, and my girls loved it, and the oldest doesn't like sweet potatoes! I think it will be our new family favorit!
     
  4. This is a wonderful tasting sweet potato pie. The spice are just perfect. This is the recipe I will be using from now on. Thanks for posting this great recipe.
     
  5. FABULOUS! I love that it is not too sweet. What a great introduction to this dessert! I skipped the crust, because I was too lazy, and baked it in a 1 1/2 quart baking dish. I used what we Yankees call "yams" i.e., the orange fleshed tuber, not the white ones. Also, was roasting something in the oven, so i just pierced the yam and baked it in the oven, then mashed it as the recipe called for. So so so good!
     
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Tweaks

  1. This is the 2nd sweet potato pie recipe I've tried. I liked that it wasn't too sweet. I followed the recipe exactly except for using a water-powdered milk mix instead of evaporated milk and putting it into a passover matzo meal crust. My only issue is that I think I needed to blend the mixture since I found egg didn't incorporate completely evenly, and I had a couple of white eggs spots on the top.
     

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