I tried sweet-potato pie recipes from Trisha Yearwood, Alton Brown, and Carla Hall. The best had an easy homemade crust.

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Before I made Hall's pie, I needed to hole nan dough.

Though nan different recipes I tested called for premade pastry mixed aliases canned saccharine potato, Hall's type of nan pie didn't travel pinch shortcuts.

Per nan recipe's instructions, I roasted 2 pounds of saccharine potatoes for astir 2 hours and past scooped retired nan filling of each to make nan custardy pie.

The look besides called for making pastry dough from scratch utilizing sugar, salt, all-purpose flour, and unsalted butter. I dissolved nan sweetener and brackish successful basking water, fto nan substance cool, and past mixed it pinch cold, cubed food and flour.

Once I formed nan dough, I chilled it until it was firm. Making nan mixed was a small time-consuming, but overall, it was 1 of nan easiest homemade pastry crusts I've made.

Once nan mixed was done, I gathered nan remainder of my ingredients.

Hall's look called for eggs, evaporated milk, ray brownish sugar, butter, salt, and an assortment of spices.

Most of nan ingredients were elemental isolated from for nan hand-mashed saccharine potatoes and homemade pastry dough. 

Hall's pastry filling was very smooth.

To make nan filling, I mixed nan mashed saccharine potatoes pinch cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg, salt, butter, brownish sugar, and evaporated beverage until nan substance was smooth.

Then, I whisked successful nan eggs and nan filling was complete.

Next, I shaped my dough.

I rolled retired nan pastry mixed and placed it successful my baking dish, pinching nan edges to shape a azygous crust.

I was concerned erstwhile nan bottommost of nan crust became cracked.

Though nan pastry crust rolled retired easy and looked flawless, things changed erstwhile I put nan pastry tin successful nan freezer.

I noticed nan pastry had cracks on nan bottom. I tried to adjacent them by mildly pushing nan mixed astir those areas but they were still location moreover aft a unsighted bake. I had to dream nan filling would beryllium heavy capable to not seep done nan bottommost of nan crust.

I added nan filling and baked nan pastry astatine 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes. Per nan recipe's instructions, I past reduced nan somesthesia to 350 degrees and baked nan pastry for astir 40 much minutes.

In nan end, Hall's dessert was delicious and reminded maine of pumpkin pie.

After astir 5 hours of prepping, baking, and cooling, my pastry was fresh to eat.

It had a awesome structure, arsenic nan crust was durable moreover pinch nan cracks I was truthful worried about. The filling held together well, and thing fell isolated arsenic I ate. 

I thought nan crust was a small bland connected its own, truthful I astir apt won't nibble connected this portion of nan pastry by itself. But erstwhile eating nan crust and filling together, this pastry was excellent.

The filling was saccharine but not overly so, and nan spices subtly came through.

Yearwood had nan simplest sweet-potato pastry recipe.

I don't mind having immoderate easy recipes successful my backmost pouch truthful I was excited to find that Yearwood's sweet-potato pie was made pinch elemental ingredients but didn't skimp connected typical touches, for illustration a sugary crust.

Yearwood's look called for either canned aliases roasted and peeled saccharine potatoes, sugar, eggs, butter, milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and homemade aliases store-bought pastry crust.

Because nan different 2 recipes I tested called for roasted and steamed potatoes, I decided to usage a canned type here. I besides opted for a store-bought crust.

Yearwood's filling came together quickly.

Using canned saccharine potatoes and store-bought crust made this look incredibly quick.

I conscionable had to harvester nan ingredients successful an electrical mixer, move nan filling into nan stiff pastry crust, and adhd sweetener connected top. Per nan recipe's instructions, I fto nan pastry guidelines for 15 minutes truthful nan sweetener could afloat melt earlier baking.

A sugar-crust topping seemed to beryllium Yearwood's concealed weapon.

The only problem I ran into was nan debased oven temperature, 300 degrees. The look said nan pastry only needed to cook for astir 1 hour, but erstwhile I checked connected it, nan filling was still excessively bedewed and nan crust was obscurity adjacent browned. 

After astir 1 hr and 40 minutes successful nan oven, the pastry was ready. The sweetener connected apical formed a delicate, delicious-looking crust complete nan filling.

Yearwood's pastry tasted good, but nan texture wasn't perfect.

Yearwood's pastry was sweeter than nan others, but I could still sensation nan saccharine murphy and nan spices. 

The only rumor was that nan filling was a small spot watery for me. The pastry still held together good but I wished nan filling was somewhat firmer.

In nan future, I'd effort baking this pastry astatine 325 aliases moreover 350 degrees and extend nan baking time to spot if it helps amended nan texture.

I looked guardant to nan maple-pecan topping connected Brown's sweet-potato pie.

Brown's sweet-potato pie mixed a from-scratch sweet-potato mash and a premade, stiff pastry crust. The filling itself called for plain yogurt, acheronian brownish sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, ovum yolks, and salt.

I was astir looking guardant to nan topping, which consisted of chopped, toasted pecans and a drizzle of maple syrup. I figured nan maple syrup and pecans would perfectly complement nan sweet-potato pie.

I utilized a makeshift steamer and prepared my saccharine potatoes.

I started by peeling and cubing a very circumstantial 1 lb and 3 ounces of saccharine potatoes, which needed to beryllium steamed for nan filling.

I don't person a steamer basket, truthful I made do pinch a crockery cookware that had an soul straining handbasket that I propped up supra nan h2o successful nan cookware pinch immoderate crumpled aluminum foil.

I fto nan potatoes steam until they were really soft, which took astir 30 minutes, and past put them successful nan fridge to cool.

The filling looked akin to nan others, contempt having yogurt successful it.

Next, I mixed nan saccharine potatoes pinch nan different ingredients, which included a batch of plain yogurt and 5 ample ovum yolks.

I tried to make Brown's pastry and topping look arsenic cleanable arsenic imaginable earlier baking.

Then, I poured nan filling into nan pastry crust and added nan highly anticipated topping.

I baked nan pie astatine 350 degrees for astir an hour.

Brown's pastry tasted excessively powerfully of yogurt for me, and it didn't support its shape.

Though I let nan pastry cool successful nan fridge earlier serving, nan crust didn't clasp up. The instability wasn't a immense woody to maine — obviously, I for illustration it erstwhile nan pastry looks neat, but I deliberation spirit is nan astir important part. 

Unfortunately, Brown's pastry missed nan people for me. Despite utilizing a mini magnitude of plain yogurt, it was nan strongest spirit successful nan filling. I thought nan pastry was excessively tangy and earthy, and I didn't get immoderate sweetness aliases spice.

I for illustration galore of Brown's dessert recipes but don't deliberation I'd effort this 1 again.

Though it took nan longest to make, Hall's pastry was good worthy my time.

Though I enjoyed Yearwood's sweet-potato pastry and nan crispy pecan topping connected Brown's version, Hall's dessert was my favorite. Even my partner, who has beautiful discerning tastes (my polite measurement to opportunity he tin beryllium a spot picky), said he loved Hall's pie.

The only point I mightiness adhd to Hall's pastry is nan sugar-topping instrumentality I picked up from Yearwood. I deliberation a slightly crisp, sugary topping connected nan sweet-potato pastry I made utilizing Hall's look would make it moreover much delicious.

This communicative was primitively published connected October 24, 2023, and astir precocious updated connected October 29, 2024.