Mallow Sweet Potato Pie

Ingredients Tick them off

• 1 large Sweet potatoescooked
• 1 cup Buttermilk, sour milk or plain yogurt
• 1/3 cup Brown sugar
• 2 large Eggsbeaten
• ¼ cup Maple syrup
• 1 cup Mini marshmallows
• ½ tsp Fresh or ground ginger
• ½ tsp Ground cinnamon
• ¼ tsp Allspice
• ¼ tsp Nutmeg
• 1/8 tsp Sea saltfor filling also 1/2 tsp for cooking sweet potatoes
• ½ cup Pecans

Topping

• 2 tbsp Maple syrup
• 2 tbsp Brown sugar
• 2 tbsp Butter or margarine
• 1 tbsp Butter milkor milk of choice

Method Tap a step to keep your place

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF

2. One single pie crust, see recipe below! Bake pie crust first for 15 minutes, remove and let cool.

3. Cook sweet potato in hot water with a pinch of salt until fork tender, remove for heat and mash. Let cool before adding the other ingredients.

4. Next, In a bowl add room temp sweet potatoes, sugar, ¼ cup maple syrup, ginger, ground cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and sea salt. Add eggs beat lightly with a fork until all ingredients are combined. Gradually stir in buttermilk until thoroughly combined.

5. Place baked pastry shell on a baking sheet so it don’t drip in oven. (optional)

6. Pour filling into pastry shell and bake for 30 minutes.

7. Meanwhile in a small saucepan melt butter over a medium heat. Gradually add in 2 tbsp brown sugar, 2 tbsp maple syrup, and 1 tbsp milk stir and cook until mixture comes to boiling stage.

8. After 30 minutes baking, with pie on the oven rack, carefully pull out the rack and sprinkle partially baked pie with pecans and marshmallows. Then scoop the syrup over the top, evenly.

9. Bake for another 15 to 20 minutes more or until centre appears set when shaken. Cool on a wire rack at least 1 hour. Cover and chill within 2 hours. Store in the refrigerator up to 2 to 3 days. Freeze if not eaten.