Spiced Vegan Candy Potato Pie

September 15, 2023

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This vegan candy potato pie is wealthy, creamy, and flippantly spiced for wonderful taste. A scrumptious dairy-free and egg-free dessert that is good for holidays and particular events!

Slice of Vegan Sweet Potato Pie topped with whipped cream and cinnamon on a dish.

Rising up, my household was all the time all about pumpkin pie for holidays. It wasn’t till I began creating recipes that I made a decision it was time to attempt candy potato pie for a change. Boy was that overdue!

Candy potato pie is completely scrumptious. It is filled with taste and a tad denser than pumpkin pie. Candy potato pie tastes like fall, however within the type of a pie. What may very well be higher? Now I ensure that there’s all the time a vegan candy potato pie at Thanksgiving dinner.

This vegan spin on a basic southern pie is fairly simple to make, so far as pies go, and it all the time wins over other people who’ve by no means tried candy potato pie…even the non-vegan ones!

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What You will Want

Candy potatoes. We’re utilizing primary orange candy potatoes for this recipe, although you can sub different varieties like yellow and purple candy potatoes I am certain. These may be labelled as “yams” in the event you purchase them in the US.
Pie crust. You should utilize a home made vegan pie crust, or purchase one on the retailer. Make sure to examine the components in the event you go together with store-bought — many manufacturers include lard or butter.
Coconut milk. Use full-fat coconut milk from a can. You possibly can in all probability get away with utilizing gentle coconut milk or another non-dairy milk, however coconut offers you the richest, most decadent candy potato pie filling.
Maple syrup. You possibly can sub one other liquid sweetener, like agave, if you would like.
Cornstarch. Cornstarch is considered one of my favourite vegan egg substitutes, and it labored notably nicely in my vegan custard pie, so I attempted it once more on this one. Labored like a attraction!
Vegan butter. Most grocery shops promote this close to the common butter. Earth Stability, Miyoko’s and Soften are a number of common manufacturers you can use.
Spices. Since this can be a spiced vegan candy potato pie, the recipe requires a mix of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and cardamom. Be happy to go away them out for extra of a basic candy potato pie taste.
Salt.

How It is Made

The next is an in depth picture tutorial on easy methods to make this dish. Scroll all the best way down if you would like to skip proper to the recipe!

Baked sweet potato that's been cut open on a white wooden surface.

Begin by baking your candy potatoes. Poke a number of holes in every with a fork or knife, then place them immediately on the oven rack to bake till they’re tender. As soon as they’re accomplished, slice them open to assist the warmth escape.

Tip: To save lots of time, your candy potatoes could be microwaved for about 8 minutes as an alternative of baked. It’s also possible to bake (or microwave) your candy potatoes a number of days forward of creating the pie. Retailer them in an hermetic container within the fridge.

Hands arranging foil and pie weights in a pie crust.

Put together your crust whereas the candy potatoes prepare dinner. Roll it out, place the dough in a pie plate, poke a number of holes in it and crimp the perimeters.

Subsequent you will be blind baking the crust. This implies prebaking it earlier than you fill it to forestall it from getting soggy. Line the crust with some foil or parchment paper, fill it with pie weights (or dried rice or beans), and pop it into the oven to bake when you make the filling.

Ingredients for Vegan Sweet Potato Pie filling in a food processor bowl.

Whereas the crust bakes, place all the filling components right into a meals processor bowl. This consists of the insides of your candy potatoes, coconut milk, maple syrup, vegan butter, vanilla extract, spices and salt.

Vegan Sweet Potato Pie filling in a food processor bowl.

Mix every thing till the batter is clean and creamy. Be happy to present it a taste-test at this level and make any changes you would like, comparable to including extra maple syrup or spices.

Unbaked Vegan Sweet Potato Pie with a spatula on top.

Switch the filling to your pie crust, clean out the highest with a spatula, and pop it into the oven. Bake your vegan candy potato pie till the filling is ready.

Slices of Vegan Sweet Potato Pie in a pie plate.

Let the pie cool fully on a wire rack earlier than slicing it.

Tip: As a result of it could take some time to chill, it is a good suggestion to make this pie a day earlier than serving.

Leftovers & Storage

Vegan candy potato pie will hold in an hermetic container within the fridge for about 4 days or within the freezer for about 3 months.

Steadily Requested Questions

Can this pie be made gluten-free?

Yup! Simply use a vegan and gluten-free pie crust, comparable to this one.

Can I exploit canned candy potato to make this pie?

I have never tried it myself, however I can not see why not!

What sort of vegan whipped topping can I placed on this pie?

The topping proven within the images Reddi-Wip dairy-free topping, made out of almond milk. An alternative choice is to make use of coconut whipped cream (see this strawberry shortcake recipe for directions on easy methods to make it).

Surface set with two slices of Vegan Sweet Potato Pie on dishes, and a pie plate.

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