Sweet Potato Pecan Pie

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
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• 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

1. Preheat oven to 425
2. With mixed beat hot yams and butter until smooth. add remaining ingredients EXCEPT crust and pecan topping. mix well. pour into crust.
3. bake 20 minutes.
4. meanwhile prepare pecan topping. beat together egg, corn syrup and brown sugar, butter and maple flavoring. stir in pecan.
5. remove pie from oven, reduce oven to 350. spoon pecan topping on pie.
6. bake 25 minutes longer or until set. cool. serve warm or at room temperature. garnish with orange zest if desired.