Sweet potato pie with pecan topping
Sweet potato pie with pecan topping recipe in the pie category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1, 9 inch, unbaked pie shell
- 1 pound sweet potatoes, cooked and peeled
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine
- 1, 14 ounces, can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 teaspoon grated orange rind
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- Pecan topping:
- 1 egg
- 3 tablespoons dark corn Karo syrup
- 3 tablespoons light brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1 tablespoon butter or margarine, melted
- 1/2 teaspoon maple flavoring
- 1 cup chopped pecans
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat hot sweet potatoes with butter until smooth.
- Add remaining ingredients except pie shell and pecan topping ingredients.
- Mix well. Pour into pie shell.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- Remove from oven.
- Spoon pecan topping evenly over top.
- Bake 20 to 25 minutes longer or until golden brown.
- Pecan topping: In small mixing bowl, combine egg, corn syrup, brown sugar, butter or margarine and maple flavoring. Mix well. Stir in chopped pecans.
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