Sweet Potato Pie

Although this is an ideal Thanksgiving dessert, you might want to practice your pie-making skills by making this beforehand. In fact, once you taste it, you will want to make it often. It’s too good to only make once a year! You can use pureed sweet potatoes or canned sweet potatoes, as you prefer, and you will also need sugar, eggs, milk, vanilla, butter, spices, and a pie crust to make it.

Pumpkin pie might be the traditional choice for the holidays, but sweet potatoes taste so similar you might want to use those instead. If you can’t find them you can use canned sweet potatoes instead and the pie will still taste fantastic.

You can enjoy a slice with a cup of coffee or a cold drink if you prefer, either a la mode with whipped cream, or with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, or au natural just as it is.

Why You’ll Love the Recipe:

Sweet potato pie is so similar to pumpkin pie but slightly different. This recipe has wonderful flavors from vanilla to warm spices and of course the sweet potatoes themselves.

How to Serve It:

Enjoy a slice of pie at room temperature or chilled, as it is or with whipped cream or ice cream.

Can You Make It Ahead?

Yes, you can make sweet potato pie in advance.

Ingredients:

• Pie crust
• Sweet potato puree
• Eggs
• Sugar
• Ground cinnamon
• Ground nutmeg
• Vanilla extract
• Milk
• Butter, at room temperature
• Salt, to taste

How to make Sweet Potato Pie:

Mix the eggs, butter, vanilla, milk, half a cup of the sugar, salt, and spices with an electric mixer until smooth.

Pour the mixture into the pie crust and sprinkle the rest of the sugar on top.

Let it sit for 15 minutes so the sugar can sink in a bit before it cooks.

Preheat the oven to 300°F.

Bake for an hour or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.

Cool completely and then serve.

Everyone at the Thanksgiving table is going to love this sweet potato pie recipe. In fact, it’s so good you will want to make it before Thanksgiving, and during – and after!

Storage Instructions:

Keep it in an airtight container in the refrigerator and eat within 3 days.

Variations and Substitutions:

Use pumpkin in place of the sweet potatoes if you wish, or swap the vanilla for another flavored extract.