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Thanksgiving Apple Cider & Brown Butter Sweet Potato Pie

Happy Thanksgiving! Well it will be, when you make this delicious pie. We made a choice and Sweet Potato Pie beats Pumpkin Pie. And Thanksgiving Apple Cider & Brown Butter Sweet Potato Pie is the best recipe to have. Fall baking his here!
Prep Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 55 minutes
Cooling Time 2 hours 15 minutes
Total Time 5 hours 30 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 9 people
Calories 519 kcal

Equipment

  • Plastic wrap

Ingredients
 
 

Cream Cheese Crust

  • 290 g AP flour
  • 4 oz. cream cheese cold, cubed
  • 3 tbsp. heavy cream
  • 1 tbsp. vinegar apple or white works
  • 170 g butter cold, cubed
  • ¼ tsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp. salt

Sweet Potato Filling

  • lbs. sweet potato uncooked
  • 113 g brown butter
  • 110 g brown sugar
  • 100 g granulated sugar
  • 9 g AP flour
  • 5 oz. evaporation milk
  • 3 tbsp. apple cider
  • 1 tbsp. heavy cream
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • ½ tsp. nutmeg
  • ¼ tsp. ginger powder
  • ¼ tsp. pumpkin spice

Instructions
 

Sweet Potato Filling

  • Preheat oven to 425° F.
  • Prepare and wash 2½ pounds of whole sweet potato.
  • Puncture with a fork or knife all around the sweet potato. NOTE: If you're under a time crunch, split the potato in half. Also drizzle a little oil in the middle.
  • Bake for 1 hour, or until skin is tender to poking. Cool and set aside.
  • In a small sauce pan, heat the butter on medium. Always monitor butter as it browns.
  • As it gets to a deep amber color, turn off heat, and mix for a minute or two before setting aside and cooling butter down.
  • RECOMMEND MAKING FILLING (BELOW) AFTER CRUST IS MADE:
  • Lower oven to 350° F.
  • In a mixing bowl, scrape out the inside of the sweet potato with a spoon or fork. Discard the skin.
  • Add the heavy cream, milk, apple cider, vanilla and eggs. Mix well.
  • Add the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger powder and pumpkin spice. Mix very well.
  • Finally, add the cooled brown butter. Mix very well.
  • Add filling to crust. Bake for 55 minutes, or when you can feel the top of the pie and the middle giggles only slightly.
  • Cool before consuming.

Cream Cheese Crust

  • Oven remains at 425° F.
  • Add the vinegar to the heavy cream.
  • In a mixing bowl, add flour, salt and baking soda.
  • Add the cold cubed cream cheese and the cubed butter. Mix very well.
  • Finally, add the heavy cream and vinegar to the mix.
  • Add the crust mix on a surface, covered with plastic wrap. Add plastic wrap to the top. Using your rolling pin, smash down, then roll flour mix.
  • Try to keep plastic wrap covered lightly to readjust the flour mx when needed. Turn dough over and smash again with rolling pin, then roll. Continue this method, along with tucking in extra flour peaking out at the sides until you have a whole dough.
  • Roll dough out to the size of the pie pan. Place in fridge for 15 minutes. Uncover one side of the plastic wrap. Fold in as a rectangle or square, and roll out again to the size of the of the pie pan. Place in fridge for 20 minutes.
  • Uncover dough again on one side. Grease your pie pan lightly.
  • Place dough in pan gently and evenly. Mold with your hand, with the plastic wrap still on, the top of dough. Place in fridge for 20 minutes.
  • Remove from fridge, gently remove top plastic wrap. Cut off excess dough hanging over pie crust. Mold to favorite pie crust design.
  • With a fork, puncture bottom of pie dough all over to help prevent rise of dough, and baking quicker.
  • Place parchment circle at bottom of pie crust, approx. 10" for a 9"" pan. Flatten parchment. Then add pie weights.
  • Bake for 25 minutes, or when pie crust starts to brown.
  • Let cool a little before removing pie weights and parchment.
  • NOTE: If your pie crust bottom is not cooked to your liking, bake at 350° F for an extra 5-10 minutes without parchment or weights. Check doneness, before removing from oven. Cool a little before adding the filling.

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Notes

With making the pie crust, keep everything cool.  The cold is your friend. When rolling out dough, work fast, and constantly place in fridge if you're working in warm climate.
The pie dough does not need extra liquids.  The fat will meld the crust together.
Always make the filling last.
If using pre-made sweet potato, the new weight should be 2-2 1/4 lbs.  If in syrup, slightly lower the sugar, by at least 10g.
Folding the dough at least once is required for gluten strength, and flakiness.
 
Happy Thanksgiving!

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 519kcalCarbohydrates: 79gProtein: 8gFat: 19gSaturated Fat: 12gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 61mgSodium: 471mgPotassium: 589mgFiber: 5gSugar: 32gVitamin A: 18532IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 152mgIron: 3mg
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