Ingredients
For the Basic Pie Crust:
- 1 1/4 cups flour
- 2 tbs. sugar
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 4 oz. unsalted butter - cubed
- 4 - 5 tbs. cold water - as needed
Filling:
- 2 large sweet potatoes - baked until fork tender
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 cup milk
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup dark brown sugar
- 3/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. fresh grated nutmeg
- 1 tbs. vanilla
Instructions
For the Crust:
- Place the cubed butter, flour, sugar and salt.
- Using a steel manual pastry blender to cut flour into crumbled pieces.
- Add the cold water slowly to form into a dough.
- Dust a clean surface with flour and roll out the dough to fit a 9 ½ -inch pie dish, with a little draping over the sides.
- Pinch the dough around the sides and press down with a fork.
- Pre-bake the crust for 10-12 minutes. Let cool on a rack before filling.
For the Filling:
- Preheat Oven 350 degrees F.
- Bake the sweet potatoes until fork tender; let cool and remove the skin.
- In a large bowl place, the sweet potatoes; add the heavy cream, milk, eggs, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla.
- Using an electric mixer on low speed mix until the ingredients are all incorporated.
- Pour into the pie crust.
- Bake approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Let cool before serving.
- Store in the refrigerator.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
- Category: Dessert