This is the Best Sweet Potato Pie Recipe you will find for your fall get together! Surprise everyone with this amazingly delicious homemade sweet potato pie.
Holidays Are A Special Time
When you think about holidays, what comes to mind? For me, it’s a ton of things. I actually start to get a giddy and smirk in a way that if you seen me from afar you would think I lost it! Fantasizing about how giving everyone becomes — and I don’t mean just presents.
I mean more simple things. Like more people holding the mall door open after walking through. It’s such a simple gesture, but if your from the Jersey/Philly/New York/Bmore/DC regions — Folks walk around like “The Walking Dead” most of the year. So, when this time of the year hits, I don’t take it for granted.
The cities and town also become more beautiful. With amazing decorations and music that gets even the grinch doing the “whip and nay nay”. But, what I truly look forward to the most is family and tradition.
For me nothing compares to that quality time.
I love “people watching” in my old household. Seeing mom and dad holding hands, feeding each other. Remember you use to get all grossed out, but now you think its cute (well, I’m still grossed out). My older brother still taking advantage of me. Like tapping on one shoulder and when I look, stealing my last bite from over the other shoulder (just wait till he needs to find his key to go home later). My little sister somehow after all these years still has my parents giving her whatever she wants (so jealous).
Yet and still loving every moment.
Passing down family traditions
What are your family traditions for the holidays? You can see some of our holidays traditions that we do every year, but I want to focus on one in this post.
It’s one that I started years before Larisha and I even got together. That’s right, I started a tradition in the family myself. A food tradition. And this family tradition I have already started passing down to my little girls. But I want to include you too! Our big girl has been helping me make this sweet potato pie recipe since she was 2!
Whether or not you’ve ever had Sweet Potato Pie before, you really need to make it happen this year. It’s really quite incredible and easy to make. It’s the best sweet potato pie recipe ever! I mean even my mama calls to make sure I’m making it so you know it’s gotta be good!
Ingredients for Sweet Potato Pie
To make homemade sweet potato pie isn’t complicated. It’s one of the more simple dessert recipes to make for Thanksgiving or other fall holidays. The full recipe is below, but the ingredients you need to make sweet potato pie are:
- Sweet Potatoes
- Unsalted Butter
- Brown Sugar
- Whole Milk
- Eggs
- Nutmeg
- Cinnamon
- Vanilla
- Store bought graham cracker crust or to make your own crust you’ll need unsalted butter, brown sugar, and graham crackers
How to Make Sweet Potato Pie
If you’ve never made a homemade sweet potato pie recipe before, you may be a little intimidated. I’m here to tell you that you don’t have to be. It’s as easy as pie (HA! – Dad joke!)
You start by boiling potatoes until soft. If you are making a homemade crust for the sweet potato pie recipe, you’ll want to do that while potatoes are cooking. Then, mash the potatoes. Add in butter. After that, add in the brown sugar, milk, eggs, nutmeg, cinnamon, and vanilla. Mix all that together until it’s nice and smooth. Pour into crust and let bake at 350 degrees for 65-75 minutes. A toothpick should come out clean when inserted. Cool and serve. It’s great topped with homemade whipped topping or ice cream!
Other Sweet Potato Recipes to Try
We think this is the best sweet potato pie recipe and a must have for the fall. However, with fall goes great pricing on sweet potatoes. You should try these other sweet potato recipes sometime during the fall as well!
- Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes with Sausage and Apples (*Vegan)
- Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Beets
- Sweet Potato and Egg Muffins
- Easy Air Fryer Sweet Potatoes
- Sweet Potato Stew
- Steak and Sweet Potato Hash
The Best Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
This is the Best Sweet Potato Pie Recipe you will find for your fall get together! Surprise everyone with this amazingly delicious homemade sweet potato pie.
- 1 lb sweet potatoes
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cups graham crackers crumbs, about 9 whole crackers
- Homemade Whipped Topping, optional
-
Boil Potatoes for 50 mins making sure water is always covering the potatoes or until soft. *If making crust, see directions below and make while potatoes are boiling.
- Immediately drain and run cool water over potatoes and skin the potatoes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, mash the potatoes.
- Add in butter and mix well.
- Add in brown sugar, milk, eggs, nutmeg, cinnamon, and vanilla.
- Mix until smooth.
- Pour into pie crust.
- Bake for 65-75 minutes or until toothpick in center comes out clean.
- Let cool and serve.
-
Top with Homemade Whipped Topping if desired.
- Mix the melted butter, brown sugar, and crumbs into a pie dish. Press down evenly with the back of a spoon until all the mixtures is evenly spread on bottom and up the sides of the dish. Cook at 350 degrees for 7 minutes, then let cool completely before adding filling.
**Nutritional facts are just estimates. Please utilize your own brand nutritional values to double check against our estimates.
Pin this Best Sweet Potato Pie Recipe for later:
This post was originally posted on 11/23/2015 as part of Mini Chef Mondays. Scroll down to see our original images. And see some other amazing recipes from our friends apart of our Mini Chef group.
- Peppermint Chocolate Chip Milkshake with Whipped Cream // Courtney’s Sweets
- One Hour Bread Recipe // Momma Lew
- Homemade Berry Granola // Baby Loving Mama
- The Best Sweet Potato Pie Recipe // We’re Parents
- Cranberry, Orange, & White Chocolate Bars // Frugal Novice
- Easy French Pastries Kids Can Make // Eating Richly
- Thanksgiving Fruit and Cheese Turkey Centerpiece // Giggles, Gobbles and Gulps
- Easy Peasy Cheesy Puffs // Step Stool Chef
- Twinestrone Soup // Vegging at the Shore
- Banana Smoothies // Mom’s Messy Miracles
- Harvest Kale Salad // O’Boy! Organic
- Zwetschgenwähe: Swiss Plum Pie // Can’t Google Everything
We're Parents is a unique mom and dad natural parenting blog focusing on topics such as breastfeeding, babywearing, and car seat safety. You'll also find Delicious recipes, inspired travel recommendations, and more as you journey with us through parenting. 
Leave a Reply