Sweet Potato Pie

The perfect Sweet Potato Pie recipe! Made with a tender and flaky, buttery pie crust and a lightly spiced, perfectly sweetened, browned butter sweet potato pie filling.

Then you have your choice to top with sweetened whipped cream or a toasted homemade marshmallow topping! This is how we celebrate the holidays!

Sweet Potato Pie

If you like pumpkin pie you'll love sweet potato pie. They're very similar in taste but this recipe is made with fresh, baked sweet potatoes (instead of canned pumpkin) and it includes browned butter so you know it's going to be good!

There are a few steps to the process of making it but it's worth every step once you get to taste this luscious pie.

So What Makes the Best Sweet Potato Pie Recipe?

So I learned a few things in testing and creating this recipe:

• Blind baking the crust will keep you from ending up with a soft and gooey pie crust.
• Using baked sweet potatoes instead of boiled sweet potatoes concentrates their flavor rather then ending up with water logged boiled sweet potatoes.
• Browning the salted butter adds adds some depth of flavor to the pie filling. Salted browned butter and sweet potato were made to go together (have you tried my browned butter mashed sweet potatoes yet?)
• Keeping it light on the spices lets the sweet potato flavor shine.
• I personally preferred the classic texture of using mashed by hand sweet potatoes vs. those pureed in a food processor.
• The lightly caramelized flavor of evaporated milk was preferred to the flavor of milk or cream.
• Tent pie crust edges with foil to prevent over-browning.
• And being careful not to over-bake the pie prevented deep cracks from happening (but if they do no big deal, just cover with the topping).

This is easily my favorite sweet potato pie recipe! And I prefer the marshmallow topping for that nostalgic flavor combination, plus I feel that's what will really set it apart from pumpkin pie but feel free to use either whipped cream or marshmallow topping. View the Recipe