Make a Sweet Potato Pie for Thanksgiving (photos)

Not much says "southern dessert" better than a Sweet Potato or Pecan pie.

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I thought I'd show you how I make both of those pies. Tonight it's the Sweet Potato, which you will soon learn is extremely easy to make. Pecan will come later. My intent is to provide all the information you'll need to have folks take a bite and say, "This tastes just like the Sweet Potato pie MD makes."

You need:

Two large Sweet Potatoes (or three) - about two or 2 1/2 cups.
Two large eggs
Two teaspoons Cinnamon
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 stick butter
1/8 teaspoon (maybe less) ground nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon (maybe less) ground cloves
a Pie crust - frozen is fine. One of the frozen ones in a foil pan is fine.

Optional: 1 teaspoon Vanilla I hardly ever use it because I like mine to taste the old fashioned (Granny did it) way.



I bake my potatoes at 400 F for about an hour.



peel them and add everything to a mixing bowl.









and mix until all of the spices are uniformly incorporated and the eggs fluff a little.





Then I add the mixture to an uncooked crust in whatever pie pan I am using.



Cook in a 350 F degree preheated oven for about 40 - 45 minutes.



until a toothpick stuck into the filling comes out clean.



I like mine chilled, so after it cools, I'll cover it with plastic wrap and refrigerate it.

If you want it hot, or warm, that is fine.

In the fridge, it will keep just fine for a week. There is no way it lasts that long at my house.

A few words about spices. Bake a sweet potato and add cinnamon and sugar. If the amount you add tastes good to you, then extrapolate how much will be needed for two or three large potatoes and use that much in your pie.

I don't use vanilla, but you can add a teaspoon of you like. You can use brown sugar if you like. You can leave out the cloves and nutmeg if you like. You can substitute Splenda sweetener and egg beaters if you like.

This is a very easy pie to make. When we sit down for Thanksgiving, there will be two or three of these on the sideboard.

Edited to add:

By request - photo of a slice



and a fork view



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