Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Sweet Potato Pie


I finally made my sweet potato pie today, ahem... 4 days after Thanksgiving. LOL! Why? Because I already bought the sweet potato and every time I opened the refrigerator, it has been screaming at me to bake it. Oh well, it is the season for pie so let's have some pies before I have no mood to bake pie anymore. Therefore, I will have another one of my favorite pies coming up. But have to wait until we finish this pie first, got to do it one at a time.


I made everything from scratch, even the crust. Home made crust is so much better than the frozen pie crust, so even as lazy as I am, I just have to make my own pie crust. I guess a bonus now is I own a food processor, so it's way easier to make the crust, just let the food processor does its' job. While the pie dough resting in the refrigerator, I will prepare the sweet potato pie filling.


This is my favorite recipe that I have been using for years. It has never failed me and I totally loved it. I got the recipe from Allrecipe.com so click here for the recipe. Oh, I added 1 Tbsp. of cornstarch into the filling to thicken it more. Serve with whipped cream on the side. Little Edda totally loved it and always requested two pieces for herself!

11 comments:

SteamyKitchen said...

this is prettier than the one I ordered at the bakery!!!!

SIG said...

Wow, lovely pie. And with the dollop of fresh cream. :)

Big Boys Oven said...

Oh My God!..... OMG!.....This pie is so cute...so suitable for this christmas as you had them deco with white stars......

Indonesia Eats said...

awww with 3 stars decoration on top. cute!

Beachlover said...

hmmm...look so good.I love sweet potato pie.I bought Mrs Smith frozen at $1.99 still not yet bake..I saw this recipe at AllRecipe cookbook ..hmmm must try one day after bake frozen one first:))

Anonymous said...

Mmmm....yummy! Ur sweet potato pie looks very delicious, Ching! Can u share the recipe for the crust? It looks really good! I havent been successful with my pie crust attempts so far!

aquariusgal

Little Corner of Mine said...

Oh thank you steamykitchen. I probably make another one for Christmas as we love sweet potato pie. :)

Thanks singairishgirl. This pie is really good if you have not tried it before.

Oh thank you BBOven! I'm so glad you like it. :) Yeah hor, decorate with leaves for Thanksgiving and stars for Christmas...hehehe....never really thought of that before.

Thanks Andaliman! :)

Beachlover, if you love sweet potato pie, then really have to try this recipe when you finish the frozen one. ;)

Thanks Aquariusgal! As for my crust, I also used allrecipe.com recipe, here's the link:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Basic-Flaky-Pie-Crust/Detail.aspx

But instead of shortening, I used butter, as I don't buy shortening at all (even the one that said zero gram of trans fat still made with partially-hydrogenenated oil, so trans fat is still there). Hope you have success in this crust recipe, very easy and flaky too.

daphne said...

gosh! I love the look of this pie. How I wish you are not on the other side of the world...so i can grab a slice of that in real life!

Edith said...

yum yum. I always wonder how sweet potato pie taste like. YOurs definitely look tempting.

Little Corner of Mine said...

Thanks Daphne! You are definitely welcome to a piece if you live here. :)

Hi Edith,
Sweet potato pie is really good actually. I prefer this to pumpkin pie. Just make and see for yourself lah! :P

Anonymous said...

Thks Ching - for sharing the recipe for the pie crust, too!

aquariusgal