# Sweet Potato Pie

A beautiful sweet potato pie made using Ashley Cunningham's pie dough recipe, focusing on creating buttery, flaky layers.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Dessert
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 4 sticks butter
- 5 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup ice water

## Instructions

1. Cut four sticks of butter into cubes and freeze them overnight.
2. Add five cups of all-purpose flour to a large mixing bowl.
3. Add the frozen butter to the flour and coat it.
4. Work the butter into the flour using hands or a food processor, ensuring everything stays cold.
5. Add a little over a cup of ice water to the mixture to prevent the butter from warming up.
6. Cut and stack the dough repeatedly to create buttery, flaky layers.
7. Separate the dough into two pieces and wrap them in plastic wrap.
8. Refrigerate the wrapped dough for a minimum of one hour, or overnight, after flattening them into discs.
9. Roll out the dough to the desired thickness.
10. Use a roller to transfer the crust onto the pie pan.
11. Trim the excess dough from the edges of the pie pan.
12. Tuck the remaining dough under and use knuckles to crimp the edges of the pie crust.
13. Dock the pie crust with a fork.
14. Freeze the pie crust overnight.

## Equipment

- cutting board
- knife
- large mixing bowl
- food processor
- plastic wrap
- rolling pin
- pie pan
- fork

## Tips

- When working butter into flour, everything must stay cold to ensure buttery, flaky layers.
- Flatten dough into discs before refrigerating to prevent cracking when rolling out later.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMQjfpKU/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/db18b6c2-2e57-42a3-963f-ba534d2b998f
- Extracted: 2025-10-26

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