Sweet Potato Pecan Pie
From the kitchen of Amber.
A tasty combo of two of my favorite pies
Ingredients
- 1 lb yams or sweet potatoes, cooked and peeled
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 tsp each ground cinnamon, grated orange rind and vanilla extract
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 egg
- 1 pie crust, you make or store bought
- Pecan Topping
- 1 egg
- 2 Tbsp each dark corn syrup and firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp melted butter
- ½ tsp maple flavoring (i have omitted this and it was tasted great)
- 1 cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425
- With mixed beat hot yams and butter until smooth. add remaining ingredients EXCEPT crust and pecan topping. mix well. pour into crust.
- bake 20 minutes.
- meanwhile prepare pecan topping. beat together egg, corn syrup and brown sugar, butter and maple flavoring. stir in pecan.
- remove pie from oven, reduce oven to 350. spoon pecan topping on pie.
- bake 25 minutes longer or until set. cool. serve warm or at room temperature. garnish with orange zest if desired.
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