SWEET POTATO PIE
This Sweet Potato Pie is easy to make and a wonderful addition to any holiday gathering!
If you love this pie you may want to try out Maple Pecan Pumpkin Pie. It’s a combination of a pecan pie and a pumpkin pie and it’s delicious.
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❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE
This pie is made with a fresh sweet potato but you can use canned. It’s so easy to put together and the spices with the sweet potato are delicious. We also make our own pie crust but you can always use a store-bought one to save time.
🍴KEY INGREDIENTS
- Sweet potatoes, mashed (You can use canned or fresh)
- Butter
- Eggs
- Evaporated milk
- White sugar
- Brown sugar
- Ground cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Ground cloves
- Ginger
- Vanilla
- All-purpose flour
- 9 inch pie shell
SWAPS
You can easily change out the spices in this pie to your liking. If you are not a fan of nutmeg you can easily leave it out.
🍽️HOW TO MAKE
This sweet potato pie is easy to make, if you are using fresh sweet potatoes, the longest part will be cooking your potatoes.
COOKING STEPS
Step 1
1 (1lb.) sweet potato equals 1 cup of mashed sweet potatoes if you decide to not use canned sweet potatoes. The above pie was made by boiling a 1 lb. sweet potato for about 40 minutes until cooked. Then, immediately put under cold water to stop the cooking process, peel and mash for pie.
Step 2
Mash sweet potatoes in a large bowl and mix with butter, eggs, sugars, and milk using a mixer.
Step 3
Add spices, vanilla, flour and continue mixing. Pour into an unbaked pie shell and bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 50 to 55 minutes until knife inserted into the pie comes out clean.
⭐TIP
1 (1lb.) sweet potato equals 1 cup of mashed sweet potatoes if you decide to not use canned sweet potatoes.
RECIPE VARIATIONS
This pie is a wonderful addition to any Thanksgiving dessert table and if you want to check out some more, this list of Thanksgiving Desserts is always a good place to start. With our Bourbon Pumpkin Cake, Sweet Chocolate Pie, you will find many more you will love.
SERVE THIS WITH
We love this pie topped with ice cream or whipped cream. Both are delicious!
❓FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
We didnt’ go over with a spatula to make it smooth, because we actually like this look and it still taste great.
Yes, you can.
STORING AND REHEATING
We store this in a pie container in a cool place and we just reheat a slice in the microwave if we want it warmed up.
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SERVING SIZE
This will make 6-8 slices depending on how you cut the pie.
Sweet Potato Pie
Ingredients
- 1 cup sweet potatoes mashed (You can use canned or fresh)
- 1 stick butter softened
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup evaporated milk
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon ginger
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 unbaked 9 inch pie shell
Instructions
- Mash sweet potatoes in a large bowl and mix with butter, eggs, sugars, and milk using a mixer
- Add spices, vanilla, flour and continue mixing. Pour into an unbaked pie shell and bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 50 to 55 minutes until knife inserted into the pie comes out clean.
Notes
I made the pie just a few days ago . It tasted alright but I had tiny bits of butter throughout the entire pie. It was a greasy buttery taste and the sweet potatoes/batter was really good , even my crust was greasy on the bottom.
Not knowing any different I made another pie and unfortunately I made the same recipe but I looked at other recipes and they called for a half of a cup of butter , so I did my best to doctor it up . The flavor is really good except for maybe a misprint?
I may bit a bit confused, a stick of butter is a half of cup of butter and is exactly what this recipe calls for. Is that what you used? Please see the other comments, this recipe has fantastic reviews. There is no misprint. Did you use a mixer? It sounds like maybe you didn’t mix it well enough if there was butter throughout the pie. Thanks!!
This recipe was a amazing!! The only thing I different was baked my sweet potatoes as I usually do .I also placed my warm baked potatoes with all other ingredients and put in the blender .This recipe was hands downs the best of any I have made.
Can the filling be made a day ahead?
I have not tried making it a day ahead but I see no reason why you couldn’t do that Michelle. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
When I make my Sweet Potato Pie I add 1Tbsp good bourbon to it.
So good!! I had enough sweet potatoes to make two pies for Thanksgiving, which was fortunate, because one of them was polished off by my family of four by Thanksgiving night.
I have been looking for sweet potato pie recepie for years. I used to buy them from a lady that made them during the holidays, but she passed away. It was very helpful since I worked in a hospital& didn’t usually had off on a holiday. I will surely try this. Thank you
I had never heard of this, but Kathy made one tonight and WOW is the word of the day.. Now this also could be made with pumpkin I would think also as the spices are an amazing combination.. TY
Hi Judy, I am from Australia and am wondering how much a stick of butter or margarine is equal to? I follow your recipes and have made some of them as well. I love sweet potato so I am really looking forward to making your recipe for this pie. I have seen many recipes that I would love to make but you have ingrediants in them that we don’t have here and I’m not sure what to substitute in their place. Thank you for so many new recipes that have been added to my folder.
One stick of butter is 113 grams.
Thank you so very much. 🙂
This was the best sweet potato pie I ever made or ate
We Mississippians love our Tater Pies!! Pass the CoolWhip/Whipped Cream, please….Mmmm!
Made this today, couldn’t wait until tomorrow to cut it, had to sample it and it was scrumptious. Have enjoyed many of your recipes.
So is this made from the orange “sweet potato” yam, or the real (white) sweet potato? Hard to tell.
The orange sweet potato, Tena.
Tena, the orange ones are Sweet Potatoes! If you have a “sweet” white potato, then that is a Yam!!
Did you know if you are eating canned pumpkin, you are eating a Hubbard Squash and not a pumpkin at all? (Found that out the other day – what a surprise!)
Thank you for this recipe, very delicous pie.
This is a good pie to fix for Thanksgiving. It tastes more like Pumpkin Pie than Sweet potato.
I decided that this recipe will be the very first sweet potato pie that I have ever made. It looks pretty as a picture! Thank you! Happy Turkey Day!
Yum!! My husband is from New York, he had never heard of Sweet Potato Pie. He LOVES them.
Thanks for the reminder, another pie to add to my Thanksgiving dessert menu 🙂
Sweet! I love this kind of cooking!
Just this morning my husband said he’s like to have sweet potato pie! I’ve never made one so I think I’ll give it a try.
oh… shut my mouth good!