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Ingredients
- 4 medium sweet potatoes
- 1/2 stick butter, softened
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup evaporated milk
- 1 unbaked pie crust
- Maple whipped cream, optional, recipe follows
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degree F.
Bake sweet potatoes for 1 hour in the oven on a baking sheet. When done, let cool. Scrape the pulp out of the skin, transfer to a large bowl, and mash. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, beat together butter, sugar, and brown sugar until creamy. Add eggs, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice and salt. Add evaporated milk and stir mixture into sweet potatoes. Beat together with mixer until smooth and pour into an unbaked pie shell.
Bake on bottom rack of oven for 1 hour or until center of pie is firm. Serve warm. Add dollop of whipped cream if desired.
Maple Whipped Topping:
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/4 confectioners' sugar
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
In a medium bowl, beat together whipping cream and confectioners' sugar. Add maple syrup. Beat together until soft peaks form.
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By ckbrown@foodnetwork
Chesapeake, VA
on December 30, 2011
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Excellent recipe, just the way i remember my mother's sweet potato pie. My mother never measured, she always said put a little this and put a little that which never worked for me. For the first time I can say I make a smack your mama sweet potato pie, thanks to the Neely's.
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on December 22, 2011
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my boys really like this recipe
By laviniab1
on December 21, 2011
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1st time making a sweet potato pie for thanksgiving and everyone loves my pie... greatest sweet potato pie ever !!! Lavinia from North Carolina
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