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Sweet Potato Pecan Pie




Source of Recipe


Eagle Brand®


List of Ingredients




1 pound yams or sweet potatoes, cooked and peeled
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 (14-ounce) can Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk (NOT evaporated milk)
1 teaspoon, each ground cinnamon, grated orange rind and vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 (6-ounce) packaged graham cracker pie crust
*Pecan Topping


Recipe



Preheat oven to 425°. With mixer, beat hot yams and butter until smooth. Add Eagle Brand® and remaining ingredients except crust and Pecan Topping; mix well. Pour into crust.
Bake 20 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare *Pecan Topping, (recipe below).
Remove pie from oven; reduce oven to 350°. Spoon Pecan Topping on pie.
Bake 25 minutes longer or until set. Cool. Serve warm or at room temperature. Garnish with orange zest twist if desired. Refrigerate leftovers.

Notes: *Pecan Topping: Beat together 1 egg, 2 tabledspoons each dark corn syrup and firmly packed brown sugar, 1 tablespoon melted butter and 1/2 teaspoon maple flavoring. Stir in 1 cup chopped pecans. (Use pecan topping mixture in recipe as noted above.)