Adult Supervision Required
Utensils Needed:
- Can opener
- Strainer
- Medium Mixing Bowl
- Fork
- Measuring cups & spoons
- Electric mixer
- Baking sheet
- Oven mitts
Ingredients:
- 1 can (15.75-ounce) sweet potatoes
- 1 cup soymilk
- ¾ cup dark brown sugar
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 eggs
- 1¼ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 ready-to-bake pie crust (9-inch)
DIRECTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Open the can of sweet potatoes and pour into a strainer over the sink to drain out all of the liquid.
- Place the sweet potatoes into a medium mixing bowl. Mash them with the back of a fork.
- Add the soymilk, brown sugar, flour, eggs, cinnamon, and salt.
- With an electric mixer at medium speed, mix all the ingredients until the mixture becomes a smooth batter.
- Place the pie crust on a baking sheet. Pour the batter into the pie crust.
- Transfer the baking sheet into the hot oven and bake the pie for 10 minutes.
- Lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for an additional 40 minutes.
- Use the oven mitts to carefully remove baking sheet with the sweet potato pie from the oven.
Serves 12!
Not a Potato Nor a Yam
Despite their name, sweet potatoes are not related to regular potatoes. A sweet potato is a root, while potatoes are tubers. The sweet potato is also often called a yam. Again, the two are unrelated. True yams are starchy, underground tubers.