Sweet Potato Pielettes

My boss Fabulous T is giving her presentation today. Over the last few days we've been spending long hours at the office data mining. Since instead of helping her I ditched her for Robert Burns Night at Shakespeare Pub I decided to wake up early and bake something for our lab meeting.

I had no toppings for cookies, but I had some premade pie crusts in the fridge and few sweet potatoes leftover from Thanksgiving. (Thank you Costco.) Mmm I hadn't made sweet potato pie in forever. I havn't been able to find a good recipe that I like so I Frankensteined a recipe from various online sources.

Instead of making one big pie, I decided to fill a cupcake pan with the crust and bake them that way.

Sweet Potato Cups

4 cup Mashed Sweet Potatoes
1/2 stick Butter
1 cup Dark Brown Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla
1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Ground Ginger
1/4 tsp Ground Nutmeg
1/4 tsp Salt
2 large Eggs (from my chickens)

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Mix the mashed sweet potatoes in with the butter, brown sugar, vanilla, and spices*. Add in the egg last. Mix until smooth and creamy.
3. Roll out the pie crust. Cut 3in diameter circles and lay inside well buttered cupcake pan. Fill all 12 and add a big scoop of pie filling in it.
4. Bake in middle rack for 20-30 minutes.


*(I steamed my sweet potatoes and mashed them in a mixer with the butter then added everything else to it. I added in the egg last to make sure it wouldn't cook in the mixture. By then the sweet potatoes had cooled to a comfortable temperature.)