Southern Sweet Potato Pie is a southern tradition for fall and Thanksgiving. It's a simple pie made from fresh sweet potatoes, sugar, eggs, flour and fall spices.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Southern
Keyword pie, Thanksgiving
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 55 minutesminutes
Servings 8
Ingredients
1cupmashed sweet potato
1/2cupsalted butter,softened
3/4cuplight brown sugar
1/2cupgranulated sugar
1/2cupevaporated milk
2largeeggs
1teaspoonvanilla extract
1/2teaspoonground cinnamon
1/4teaspoonginger
1/4teaspoonnutmeg
1tablespoonall-purpose flour
1(9-inch)unbaked pie crust
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place sweet potato and butter in a mixing bowl and use an electric mixer to beat until smooth.
Add brown sugar, granulated sugar, milk, eggs, vanilla extract, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and flour. Beat until smooth.
Pour into pie crust. Bake for 55 to 60 minutes, or until center is set.
Notes
I like to refrigerate this pie before serving, but you can serve it warm.Use either a homemade pie crust, refrigerated or frozen pie crust.My favorite way to make mashed sweet potato is to bake them until very soft, peel the skins off and then mash them. Two medium to large sweet potatoes should be enough for 1 cup of mashed sweet potato.