Sweet potato pie is the best snippet of Thanksgiving. It is the dessert I have been waiting to eat since the first three months of school. Sweet potatoes have been around since prehistoric times. Back in 1492, when Christopher Columbus explored and discovered America, he found Native Americans. The Natives had been growing sweet potatoes,Christopher saw them,and took them to be cultivated elsewhere.
To make the pie you would need your traditional ingredients for the filling: mashed sweet potato, butter, soft light brown sugar, eggs, evaporated milk, maple syrup, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg,and salt. Nothing has to be cooked, except the sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes could be either boiled or baked.I prefer baked because the natural flavoring stays in the potato.When you boil it the potato taste bland.I like this recipe except they had forgotten the vanilla flavoring. Passionate bakers would not put any pastries or sweets in the oven without vanilla flavoring. The vanilla makes every baked good sweeter and richer. It would be your choice to put vanilla flavoring in the pie;however if you choose not to, I recommend you to mix it in. There is also the crust. If you know how to make crust, you could make it your self, but on the recipe it said frozen pie crust.
The recipe and instructions for Mini Maple Sweet Potato Pie is below:
Pastry
400g short crust pastry (store bought or homemade)
Filling
450g mashed sweet potato
60g butter (softened)
150g soft light brown sugar
2 eggs
200ml evaporated milk
2tbsp maple syrup
1tsp cinnamon
1tsp ginger
1/2tsp nutmeg
1/4tsp salt
Instructions
- Pre heat the oven to 200C.
- Mix all the filling ingredients together until well combined.
- Grease 12 10cm (4") loose bottomed tartlet tins.
- Roll out the pastry and line each tartlet tin.
- Prick the bottom of each lined tin multiple times with a fork.
- Pour the sweet potato mixture into each tin leaving 1/2cm of pastry at the top of each one.
- Bake for 5 minutes and then reduce the heat to 170C and bake for a further 20 minutes or until done.
- Do not let them brown too much. To prevent burnt crust there are Pie Crust Shields sold at William Sonoma
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