December 13, 2019 | Last Updated on January 14, 2023 by Patricia Valbrun
Southern Brown Butter Sweet Potato Pie is a Southern Classic pie with brown butter, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and all your favorite spices to make this dish so creamy and delicious!
I have yet to meet anyone that doesn't love a good ole Southern Sweet Brown Butter Potato Pie. Its crispy edges covered with apricot preserves, delicious filling made of brown butter and all your favorites species. There honestly isn't a better way to make it in my opinion, the southern way is the best way.
Ingredients in Sweet Potato Pie
Sweet Potatoes: Can’t have sweet potato pie without sweet potatoes! Use about 2 cups.
Evaporated Milk + Butter: Both butter and milk add flavor and guarantee a smooth and creamy texture. Make sure your butter is room tempeture.
Brown Sugar/ White Sugar: Brown sugar sets this pie apart from other sweet potato pies and pairs perfectly with the natural sweetness of sweet potatoes. White sugar to compliment.
Flour: A touch of flour thickens the filling.
Eggs: Eggs provide the pie’s structure.
Fall Spices: The cozy combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice, cloves, and ginger creates an elevated flavor profile. What a line-up of ingredients!
Orange Juice: Helps bring out the flavors of the spices.
Apricot Preserves: For that golden crust.
Vanilla Extract: Vanilla is a must in sweet potato pie!
How to Make Sweet Potato Pie
This pie has a creamy texture that just melts in your mouth, it’s definitely a pleaser. I would recommend making your own pie crust as it makes the layer from pie crust to filling just beautiful. Also, there’s no need to pre-bake the pie crust!
1. Frozen Pie Crust. Thaw the pie crust once thaws out, spread Apricot jam all over your pie crust. Tweak the pie crust making it your own is the trick!
2. Bake potatoes. Bake the sweet potatoes until the skins are loose and the potatoes are super soft, about 45-50 minutes.
3. Prepare potatoes. Peel off the skin– which slides right off because the potatoes have baked, then place into mixing bowl. I recommend using an electric mixer to ensure, no lumps and no stringiness!
4. Make filling. Add remaining filling ingredients to the sweet potatoes. Beat until smooth, spread into prepared pie crust.
5. Bake. This pie will take about 1 hour in the oven, until the center is *mostly* cooked through– it will jiggle a little in the center. Cool for at least one hour before serving– this makes it easy to cut through and gives the flavors more time to mingle.
Serve. Top it off with some amazing whipped cream or any of your favorite toppings!
Why use Apricot Jam on Crust?
Using this apricot jam will give you the best golden brown crust while adding a tab bit of sweetness to the crust. If you dont have this on hand you can also omit for an egg wash or unstaled melted butter.
Tips on making Sweet Potato Pie
• If using frozen pie crust, take it out the freezer one hour before.
• Bake sweet potatoes so you do not loose any flavor, don't boil.
• Use an electric mixer to blend and remove strings, if not use a blender.
• If freezing pie, simply bake the pie as directed, cool completely, then wrap tightly with plastic wrap or foil. Save up to 2-3 months
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Southern Brown Butter Sweet Potato Pie
Ingredients
- 1 Pie Crust
- 2 cups sweet potato
- ½ cup unsalted butter 1 stick
- 1-2 tablespoon apricot preserves
- 1 ½ tablespoon all purpose flour
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup evaporated milk
- 2 tablespoon orange juice
- 2 eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ginger
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- pinch cloves
- salt dash
Instructions
- Wash and scrub the sweet potatoes, hand dry with paper towel and poke holes around the potatoes with a fork.
- Add the sweet potatoes on a baking tray and Baked on 425F for 45-1 hour.
- While sweet potatoes are cooking. In a small pot, add butter and brown the butter on low high heat. It should take about 5 minutes.
- Once the sweet potatoes are done, allow them to cool. After that, remove the skin and put the sweet potatoes inside a large bowl.
- Using an electric mixer, mix the sweet potatoes to remove any lumps or string. Then, add browned butter, brown sugar, white sugar, evaporated milk, 2 eggs, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, vanilla, pumpkin spice, orange juice and blend all together. Add flour and salt mix one more time.
- Coat the pie crust with apricot preserves all over then add in the sweet potato filling- making sure to not overfill.
- Bake on 350F for 55 minutes allow to cool and set for 20 minutes, enjoy.
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Lynn says
This recipe is outstanding! I made it exactly as written, and wow. The preserves on the crust add a wonderful flavor layer and crisped the crust without burning. The texture of the custard - melts in your mouth. Just firm enough at room temp and even better 5-10 mins out of the fridge in my opinion. I’ve made MANY sweet potato pies and this version wins. Thank you for posting.
Caitlin says
I see you lost “1/4 ginger” 1/4 what? tsp? This looks absolutely delicious!
letseatcuisine says
Yes, 1/4 tsp of ginger . Recipe card will be updated . Thank you so much and happy holidays 🎄❤️
Yulanda says
Have any one used dark brown sugar before because that’s all I have on hand. Please help me
letseatcuisine says
Hi Yulanda,
If that’s all you have of course you can alternate . If you don’t have white sugar as well try 1/2 and 1/4 cup of just the dark brown. It should work out just as good, let me know how it turns out for you . Happy Holidays ❤️🎄🍂
Rozlyn says
Hi, how much cinnamon? It’s not in the ingredients list but says it’s added in the directions. Thank you!
letseatcuisine says
Hi ! 1/2 tsp of cinnamon . Thank you 😊
Gina says
I totally have plans on making this recipe and not just for the holidays. This is unlike any recipe for sweet potato pie. Can I use the apricot preserves for any sweet potato pie recipe? Thanx for your response.
@Yulanda...combine equal parts dark brown sugar and white sugar. The white sugar lightens up the taste and look of the dark brown sugar. I do this all the time. HTH
Lindsay says
This pie is awesome. I am a huge pumpkin pie fan, so the fact that I think this is AS good as a pumpkin pie is pretty high praise. I might even think that it might be a smidge better...Its hard for me to say that coming from the north, but seriously, it’s that good! I didn’t do the apricot preserves because I didn’t have them, but it still turned out awesome. I’ve already made this pie twice, thank you for this recipe!
AcosdaB says
This pie is better than my mama’s! Long after eating the last bite I can still taste it. Perfect amount of every spice. Plan to try it with a drizzle of bourbon sauce next time, I made it gluten free by using a Wholly Gluten Free Pie Shells crust and exchanged the flour for 1/2 tblsp of corn starch. I’ve made this recipe twice. First time without the apricot preserve and second time with. I had a problem with the crust falling off the filling when I used the preserves. I’ll skip that from now on. Perhaps it doesn’t work well with the gluten free crust.
Ginny says
Can the apricot preserves be used for any pie? Thanx for your response
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU!!!
letseatcuisine says
Yes, it can be! Thank you and happy holidays to you and your family 🙂