Mini Sweet Potato Meringue Pies Sweet Potato Pie Recipe

Mini Sweet Potato Meringue Pies

I love Sweet Potato Pie! Adding a ripe banana to the sweet potato filling is the secret to keeping these mini sweet potato pies light. More Thanksgiving desserts I love are Pumpkin Pie and No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake.

My Mom hosts Thanksgiving every year, she wouldn’t have it any other way! I usually bring a side dish and appetizer and my cousin Nina usually brings dessert. Nina is not only a great baker, she’s also very talented in photography, writing, and she just graduated from Columbia University. So I put her up to the challenge of creating her first guest post for me and she really came through! Please welcome her and visit her blog if you love to bake.

Hi, everyone! My name is Nina, I’m very excited to be sharing this recipe for mini sweet potato meringue pies. I’m no stranger to coming up with creative pie, cookie, and cupcake recipes, but this recipe was a bit different. My baking style is typically full of butter, cream, and sugar, so the recipes I make tend to be on the indulgent side. However, this doesn’t mean that I’m always thinking about rich foods; on the contrary, I actually care a lot about eating healthy whole foods. I love being active and eating a lot of healthy foods, it’s definitely one of my priorities to help keep my dessert obsession in check. Fortunately for me, my cousin Gina has been a great resource for coming up with healthy meals! I actually prepared a lot of her recipes while I was living away from home during college. Who knew that eating healthy could be so easy, and delicious?!

I was pretty excited when Gina asked me to help her come with a perfect dessert for Thanksgiving. There was a catch though: I had to stick to a specific number of points per serving! Yikes! I was up for the challenge though, and immediately knew that I wanted to make pie. Pie is one of my absolute favorite things and sweet potato pie seemed like a great way to go.

How to make sweet potato pie lighter

To make the pie filling light, I used a trick I saw on many sweet potato casserole recipes. Adding a ripe banana to the sweet potato puree is the secret to keeping this sweet potato pie filling light. Since the banana adds natural sweetness you hardly need any additional sugar at all! Rolling out a store-bought pie crust a little bit thinner helps keep the points low too. It also makes life a little bit easier. Meringue is naturally fat free, so it’s perfect for adding a little extra sweetness and marshmallow texture, without increasing the points. Because who doesn’t love that flavor combination? I thought making mini pies would be great for Thanksgiving. They not only help with portion control, but also looks cute and festive. You can make the pies the day before, top them with the meringue just before serving, and all that’s left is arranging them on a pretty platter and digging in. It only 4 points plus per serving, these will go fast! Hope you enjoy!