Sweet Potato Pie

Name: Sweet Potato Pie
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: US & Canada, Southern, American
Ingredients: 1 (9-inch) single-crust, pie dough; 1 1/4 cups packed (8 3/4 ounces; 248 grams), light brown sugar; 1 3/4 pounds (794 grams), sweet potatoes, unpeeled; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 1/2 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 1/4 teaspoon, ground nutmeg; 1 cup, sour cream; 3 , large eggs plus 2 large yolks; 2 tablespoons, bourbon (optional); 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2013, Cook's Country TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

Pies with heavy, grainy, cloying fillings were not our idea of holiday dessert. To do this pie justice, we needed time...and lots of tubers.

SERVES8

TIME2 hours, plus 2 hours cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To streamline this holiday dessert, we start by “baking” whole sweet potatoes in the microwave. A food processor makes quick work of pureeing the flesh and lends a silky-smooth texture. Sour cream adds subtle tang while smoothing out the cu...

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