Sweet Potato Pie
A healthy and delicious version of the classic sweet potato pie – a perfect, easy sweet potato dessert recipe for Thanksgiving!
In the spirit of the holidays, I bring you this little slice of heaven. A lightened-up sweet potato pie recipe, perfect for Thanksgiving. While most dessert pack empty calories, this dessert is made with healthy sweet potatoes, which are high in beta-carotene and vitamin C.
This simple pie recipe is great for beginner bakers and for anyone who is super busy with all the holiday festivities. To make this quick and easy, I use a store-bought frozen pie crust.
If you’ve never baked a sweet potato dessert, you’re missing out! I love baking this sweet potato pie recipe during the holidays. I actually prefer it to pumpkin pie. Both pies are very similar, but sweet potato pie has a little more texture from the fresh potatoes. Another sweet potato dessert to try is my recipe for Mini Sweet Potato Meringue Pies.
Crust-less Sweet Potato Pie
To make it even lighter, go crust-less! For a crust-less version, spray a pie dish with baking spray, pour the sweet potato mixture into the dish, and bake as directed. Without the crust, it’s only 144 calories per slice. On the new MyWW plan without the crust it’s 3 Purple, 5 Blue and 6 Green. (I personally prefer mine with the pie crust – it’s definitely worth the extra points for the holidays!)
How to make Sweet Potato Pie
First, you must boil the sweet potatoes and blend them in a blender. Once smooth, put the potatoes in a bowl with the butter and mix well. Then, mix in all the other ingredients. Pour into a pre-made pie crust and pop in the oven. The recipe really is that easy!
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Sweet Potato Pie
Ingredients
- 1-1/2 lbs sweet potatoes
- 2 tbsp light butter, softened
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar, not packed
- 1/2 cup 1% milk
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 tsp ground pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 9 inch unbaked pie crust
Instructions
- Boil sweet potato whole in skin for 50 to 55 minutes, or until soft. Run cold water over the sweet potato, and remove the skin. Blend potatoes in a blender and pulse for about one minute to remove all fibers.
- Place sweet potatoes in a bowl. Add butter, and mix well. Using an electric mixer, mix in sugar, milk, eggs, cinnamon and vanilla. Beat on medium speed until mixture is smooth. Pour filling into an unbaked pie crust.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 55 to 60 minutes, or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Serve with cool whip and enjoy!
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YUM! So good, thank you! (I subbed water for milk bc I’m lactose intolerant, subbed ghee for butter and a mix of date sugar & maple syrup for brown sugar.
How long can you store this in the refrigerator?
It looks so delicious . Thanks for sharing the recipe. Can’t wait for more to try it.
Hi. Where i live there is no pumpkin pie spices, if i add cinnamon and ginger instead would it be ok?
thanks for your recipes.
oh my gosh Gina, you are amazing! you have the 3 WW colors/points on recipes already! i appreciate you soooo much! Living the ST life!
Excited to try this lighter version! I’m a Southern girl who’s been making the old school recipe for years. A little tip: I prefer to bake the sweet potatoes, rather than boil. I think the flavor is a deeper and the skins pull right off! 🙂
While this is a nice “skinny” recipe, it’s not a traditional sweet potato pie recipe. Sweet potato pies are made from yams (sometimes orange sweet potatoes) that give them the beautiful orange color, do not contain pumpkin pie spices, brown sugar, or cinnamon. Sweet potato pies and pumpkin pies taste different. I don’t like pumpkin pies, but sweet potato pie is my favorite. So, for me this is a lightened-up pumpkin pie recipe using sweet potatoes.
I always put cinnamon and brown sugar in my sweet potato pies! You could modify the spices per your regular sweet potato pie recipe if you’d prefer, but this recipe is just like my southern sweet potato pie recipe, with less butta and sugar. Try it ~ it’s very good!
Actually YAMS are NOT sweet potatoes, but a different root vegetable that does not grow readily in America. Sweet potato pies are made from,,,SWEET POTATOES.
Could one substitute Butternut squash for sweet potatoes to cut down on SP’ts they are quite similar
Thanks Stephanie
Sure
What size of pie plate did u use? Candace be made in a deep dish pie plate? Thank you for your help.
I have never had sweet potato pie but I’m going to try it out. Do you have a suggestion on the type of sweet potato to use? There are so many varieties I’m not sure of the most flavorful one.
Yams or the orange sweet potatoes are best
Thank you so much for this recipe! I am making it for my Friendsgiving and everyone is so excited!
Yummy. I used 2 eight inch pie crusts with 5 sweet potatoes. While this dish is decadent, next time i would cut the brown sugar in half since it truly taste like dessert instead of a side dish. I used two premade shortbread pie crusts and it baked very nice.
Thank you for sharing nice article,
Wow, It’s looking so delicious, and the color is so pretty
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