Sweet Potato Pie Recipe

4.89 from 9 votes

If you like pumpkin pie, you’ll love our homemade sweet potato pie recipe. It has a creamy texture, made with pureed sweet potatoes, spices and baked in a buttery pie crust. It a perfect dessert for fall and Thanksgiving.

Prep Time30

Cook Time50

Total Time1 50

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: people

Author: Eden

Cost: $10

Ingredients

Buttery Pie Crust

Sweet Potato Pie Filling

1 3/4 cup pureed sweet potatoes
4 tbsp unsalted butter melted, cooled
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar packed
2 large eggs
1/2 cup milk whole or 2%
1 tbsp bourbon
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp cardamom
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp salt

Instructions

Prepare 1 pie crust and save a little to make cutouts to deocrate the pie.
Peel and cube the sweet potatoes.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Then add in the sweet potatoes and boil for about 15 minutes until soft. You’ll be able to stick a fork all the way through.
Then strain, saving 1 tbsp water to puree them with.
Add the sweet potatoes into a blender with 1 tbsp of the water they were boiled.
Blend until they are perfectly pureed, similar to a can of pureed pumpkin.
In an electric mixer, combine the sweet potatoes, soft butter, both sugars and eggs and blend.
Add in the milk, bourbon, vanilla, spices and salt and blend.
Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl and continue mixing.
Pour into a prepared pie crust and bake in a preheated 400 degree oven for 50 minutes until the center of the pie does not wiggle.
Let the pie cool for 30 minutes before serving.

Notes

I used a ceramic 10 1/2″ diam., 2 1/2″ high pie dish for this recipe. You can buy it here.

Make sure the butter is super soft. You can melt it and let it cool before adding it to the pie. If it’s not, it will leave tiny little flakes of butter throughout the pie. This is OKAY for flavor but looks better without butter flakes.

Let the pie cool to room temperature before serving.

Puree the potatoes to the same consistency as canned pumpkin.

Save some dough to make pie cutouts to decorate once it’s cooled. Bake the cutouts separately on a baking sheet for about 15 minutes or until golden brown.
When boiled, sweet potatoes take about 15-20 minutes to cook. Poke them with a fork to see if they're tender. They'll take less time to cook if you chop them into smaller pieces.
When you're learning how to make sweet potato pie, it's important to note that the pie will be done when the center is set. You can insert a knife into the center, and if it comes back clean, your pie is done. The center also won't jiggle if it's cooked all through.

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