
1 Un-baked pastry lined pie shell.
You can find 2 great Single Pastry Pie Crust Recipes HERE [do not pre-bake]
2 Cups cooked Yams or Sweet Potatoes
1/2 Cup Unsalted Butter
1/2 Cup Heavy Cream
1/2 Cup Brown Sugar packed
2 Large Eggs
1 tsp. Vanilla
1/2 tsp. Cinnamon
1 tsp. Ground Ginger
1/2 tsp. Ground Nutmeg
2 Tablespoons Orange Juice
Dash Salt
Mash Sweet Potatoes with half of the butter. (1/4 cup) let cool. Add heavy cream, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, spices and orange juice. Beat. Turn into Pie Crust. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes.
Carefully pull pie out of oven and top with the following:
1/4 Cup Brown Sugar
1/4 Cup Butter
1/2 Cup Chopped Pecans
{ahead of time, use fork or pastry blender to cut cold butter into the brown sugar and pecans}
Put pie back in oven and bake another 25 minutes, or until knife inserted into pie, comes out clean.

















11 comments:
Oh.my...oh.my...oh.myyyyy myyyy. Saving this one for the big day...may have to do a practice run this weekend though...I'm just sayin'....
This resembles a sweet potato souffle type recipe my SIL loves for Thanksgiving as a side dish. It always tasted like dessert to me. I think we should try this! Thanks for sharing :)
Ummmm, that looks Yummy Mrs. Pleasant! Especially with that nut topping -- what's not to love???
I haven't made sweet potato pie in a very long time! I'll have to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing!
That looks delicious!
I made a pumpkin pie for Canadian Thanksgiving and your recipe seems similar. Yummy!!
Yum! I can't wait to try this!
That looks delish!!!!
do you know we LOVE sweet potatoes, but I've never had or made sweet potato pie!! this sounds SCRUMPTIOUS!! I'm adding this to my MUST try list for sure!!
Thanks so much for posting and linking up!
~TidyMom
Grew up eating sweet potato pies but this one looks so much lighter and moist.
Yummy! A delicious pie that would be welcome at any dinner table.
Now, I'm off to enjoy visiting other "Love the Pie" blog participants.
I love this recipe! I can't wait to try it to see if it is the one like my mom use to make. Thanks for sharing!
my family loves sweet potatoes I can't wait to make this. I love all these pie recipes.
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