The Best Sweet Potato Pie

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 1999

The problem with most sweet potato pies is that they are pumpkin pies in disguise. Our challenge was to create a blue-ribbon dessert that still tasted like sweet potatoes.

SERVES 8 to 10 (Makes one 9-inch pie)

TIME 2½ hours, plus 1 hour 10 minutes chilling, 30 minutes freezing, and 2 hours cooling

The Best Sweet Potato Pie

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a sweet potato pie recipe that would really taste like sweet potato pie, we microwaved and mashed the potatoes, which preserved some bite in their texture. White sugar and a touch of molasses brought us still closer to the pie we were l...

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