Which dessert made with cooked sweet potatoes is a traditional soul food favorite?

Sweet potato pie is the traditional soul food dessert made with cooked sweet potatoes.

The filling typically combines mashed sweet potatoes with sugar, eggs, milk or evaporated milk, and warm spices such as cinnamon or nutmeg. It is baked in a pastry crust and is especially associated with African American and Southern holiday meals.

Sweet potatoes were already important in the Americas before European colonization. African American cooks adapted European-style custard pies to ingredients and flavor traditions familiar in Southern households.

Sweet potato pie is often compared with pumpkin pie because both are spiced orange-colored custard pies. They are not interchangeable: sweet potato pie uses cooked sweet potato as its defining base, while pumpkin pie uses pumpkin purée.