Despite hundreds of variants, sweet potato pie is a common dish in the South. My mother and grandmother have been using this recipe for years. This pie is even my picky husband’s favorite!
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 55 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Servings: | 16 |
| Yield: | 2 pies |
Ingredients
- 1 pastry for a 9-inch double crust pie
- 4 cups peeled chopped sweet potatoes
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- 3 eggs
- ⅓ cup milk
- ¼ cup margarine
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon lemon extract
- ⅓ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Press the pie pastries into two 9-inch pie dishes.
- Place sweet potatoes into a large pot and cover with water; bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Drain potatoes and let cool.
- Beat potatoes, sugar, eggs, milk, margarine, vanilla extract, lemon extract, cloves, and allspice together in a bowl until smooth; pour into the prepared crusts.
- Bake in the preheated oven until pies are set in the middle, 40 to 60 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 257 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 36 g |
| Cholesterol | 35 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 183 mg |
| Sugars | 21 g |
| Fat | 11 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
My wife made this for her mom, who was born and raised in Houston. My wife joined the army straight out of high school, and hasn’t lived in the south for the last 25 years. This was my wife’s first time making sweet potato pie, and she was nervous about her mom liking it. Her mom told her, “You put your southern footprint on that one!” That’s high praise from a southern mama.
It was delicious and yes I am definitely preparing it again.
Very easy to make this was my first sweet potato pie and I’ve been cooking for a long time. I did use more brown sugar instead of the white it was a hit. I will be doing more for Christmas thanks.
This was my first time ever making a sweet potato pie! My hysband wanted one for New Years day & they were no where to be found in the store so I had to make my own! Great recipe! I’m not a baker, but my family loved it! I slightly altered the recipe because I forgot to buy vanilla & lemon extract so I used honey. Great substitute!
First Time ever making a sweet potato pie, My Son and B/F loved it..Will keep this and pass down to my kids…Thanks for sharing this pie with us…
My children are very picky about pies. This one gone in 20 minutes. Great
This recipe has been in my family for at least 60 years. My late grandmother (born 1918) prepared it for as long as my mom can remember. She passed the recipe on to my mom who has been making them since before I was born, always around Thanksgiving time. My husband jokes that this was one of the reasons he fell in love with me – he looked forward to going to my parent’s for Thanksgiving each year and being able to bring a pie home! Nowadays I make them myself for him and my sons and everyone loves them. The lemon and allspice helps it stand out from the other sweet potato pies I’ve had. Hope you enjoy it as much as we do!