Old Fashioned Cookie Crust Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
Cookie Crust Sweet Potato Pie Recipe, spiced with bourbon, in a buttery rich pecan cookie-like crust easy enough for novice bakers!
Course Pies
Cuisine American
Keyword Old Fashioned Cookie Crust Sweet Potato Pie
Prep Time 30 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour10 minutesminutes
Total Time 1 hourhour40 minutesminutes
Servings 8servings
Equipment
Pie Dish
Food processor
Ingredients
Cookie-like Pie Shell
1cupPecansor other nuts
1cupOatsuncooked
3/4cupAll Purpose Flour
6tbspButterroom temperature
1/4cupBrown sugar
1/2 tspGround Cardamom
1/4tspGround Ginger
1/2tspGround Cinnamon
1Egg white
Sweet Potato Pie Filling
2cupsCooked Sweet Potatoes
3Egg yolks
2Egg whites
1/2cupBrown Sugar
1/4cupBourbon
1/4cupMascarpone, heavy cream or sour cream
1tbspGround Cinnamon
2tspGround Ginger
1tspGround Cardamom
1/4tspMace
1/4tspGround Cloves
1tbspFresh Orange zest
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees f
Crust - In a food processor, crush the pecans and oats.
Add the flour, sugar and wonderful warm spices and pulse. Add the butter and pulse until it resembles coarse meal.
With the processor running, add the egg white and let it run until the mixture forms a dough ball. If sticky, add more flour, if dry, drizzle a few drops of ice water.
In a 9-inch pie pan, press the dough evenly across the bottom, working the dough up the edges, to the top edge of the pie plate. With a mini rolling pin (a favorite tool of mine), roll the dough smooth on the bottom and sides. Crimp the edges as you would any pie crust. Place in the fridge while working on the sweet potato puree.
Sweet Potato Mixture - Baked sweet potatoes, cooled, can be placed on a cutting board, cut open and the sweet potato flesh can be scooped out into a large bowl of an electric mixer or food processor. Uncooked sweet potatoes need to be peeled, cubed with a sharp knife and boiled, which only takes about 15-minutes to cook, and can be done while preparing the pie crust. Drain and cool.
Add all of the remaining ingredients to the cooked sweet potatoes and mix the batter on medium speed until it is velvety smooth.
Transfer into the prepared pie dough, place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
Bake for 10-minutes, and then turn down the oven temperature to 350 and continue baking until the crust is golden brown and the center of the pie is firm to the touch, like any other custard pie, about 45-minutes.
If the crust is becoming brown too quickly, a long strip of aluminum foil can be placed around just the crust until the pie is finished baking.