All the flavors you love in grandma’s old-fashioned Southern sweet potato pie, but easier, healthier, and without the crust! A Gluten-Free Crustless Sweet Potato Pie that’s vegan, top-8 allergy-free, paleo, creamy & sweet! This quick, healthy, lower carb & sugar-free twist the classic dessert will be a winning recipe for the holiday season!
Whether it be Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any Fall/Winter holiday in-between, cozy sweet pies are always a popular dessert option to serve. Where fruity pies are left for summer holidays, the more decadent and rich pies you tend to see in the cold months. All in the name of health, celiac disease, food allergies, and veganism, that’s never been a problem over here on Strength and Sunshine. Coming from someone who personally is not a pie fan, but knows she’s in the minority on that opinion, I have high standards to pies (or what I deem to be pies), so you know I’ll only provide you with the best.
What’s a sweet potato pie?
Never had sweet potato pie? Maybe you’ve never even heard of it? It’s definitely an American dessert. A Southern American dessert to be exact. Move over pumpkin, sweet potato pie came before pumpkin pie and the sweet potato pie we know and love here in the US originated during the colonial period by African slaves. Now this sweet spud pie is coined as traditional soul food and typically served the most during Thanksgiving and Christmas. Typically made in a buttery, flaky pie crust, the filling is orange sweet potato, sugar, butter, evaporated milk, eggs, and seasonal spices.
How do you make this sweet soul food lightened up and healthier?
Taking notes from my crustless pumpkin pie and crustless apple pie recipes, this gluten-free, vegan, allergy-free, paleo crustless sweet potato pie is just canned sweet potato puree (you could use fresh mashed sweet potato, but let’s get real! No one’s got time for that and I want SMOOOOTH pie), some gluten-free flour (or cassava flour to make this paleo), spices, brown and white erythritol, and a touch of psyllium. So simple, so healthy, none of the dairy or eggs, not even nuts. This pie is so easy and light, you could eat the whole thing, technically, if you wanted to.
What’s the best way to serve this gluten-free crustless sweet potato pie?
First, this puree-based pie MUST be eaten COLD! For best slicing and serving results, bake the pie the day before you’ll be serving it. Let it chill completely in the fridge overnight and then when you go to slice and serve, you’ll be able to cut perfect slices! What to top your perfect crustless sweet potato pie slice with is up to you! I recommend some vegan whipped cream, my sugar-free marshmallow fluff, or possibly a scoop of your favorite vegan ice cream!
Technically you could enjoy this for breakfast, but we’ll stick with dessert. Of course, when are Strength and Sunshine desserts not able to be doubled as breakfast? Very rarely! And this dessert happens to be packed with “vegetables”. You can’t beat the nutritional powerhouse that is The Sweet Potato, now can you?
Gluten-Free Crustless Sweet Potato Pie
- 1 15oz Can of Sweet Potato Puree*
- ⅓ Cup Gluten-Free All Purpose Flour**
- 2 TB Brown Erythritol (or preferred brown sugar)
- 2 TB Erythritol (or preferred granulated sugar)
- 2 Tsp Baking Powder
- 1 Tsp Psyllium Husk
- 1 Tsp Cinnamon
- ½ Tsp Allspice
- ½ Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract
- ¼ Tsp Ground Cloves
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients and mix together until you have a smooth, creamy batter.
- Pour the batter into a 9-inch round cake or pie pan and spread the batter smooth.
- Bake the pie for 20-25 minutes, remove and allow to cool completely.
- Once cool, place it in the fridge, to chill overnight before slicing and serving (with whipped cream!)
**If you want to make this paleo/grain-free, you can use ⅓ cup of cassava flour instead!
So good! That cool, creamy, pudding texture if exactly how I like my pies! The filling is always the best part, right? No one asks for pie and raves about the crust. The crust is garbage! Just let me dive into that filling! I know I’m not alone, regardless of being gluten-free. Filling will always reign supreme! So get ready to wow you entire family this holiday season with a pie that does it all, is healthy, crustless, and puts grandma’s Southern sweet potato pie to shame!
So tell me:
+ What’s your favorite holiday pie? (Check out our pumpkin and apple pies too!)
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Looking for a healthy and allergen friendly pie to make for a friend and fits the bill! Thank you so much!
A perfect holiday treat for everyone!
Perfect recipe for the upcoming holidays.
Yup! All the cozy pies!
Wow. A perfect dessert for the holiday season. Looks wonderful!
Jo (A Rose Tinted World) recently posted…Belief
Sure is! Thanks!
I love everything with sweet potatoes! This is so perfect for the holidays! thanks for sharing the ingredients!!!
Me to and they make for some great desserts!
Yum! That photo with the bite on the fork makes me want to just grab the fork and gobble it up! This pie looks like the perfect consistency… Even for people who generally like/can eat crust, I doubt they’d miss it!
Exactly! Just another delicious version with all the goods!
I definitely need to make that crust! Looks great!
Lol, uh, what crust?
This looks really amazing! Perfect fall treat!
A great winter and fall dessert for sure!
I haven’t had sweet potato pie in YEARS! This recipe looks great–and simple. I’ll have to try it for the holidays this year!
Sharon | TheHelpfulGF recently posted…ALLERGEN & GLUTEN FREE EXPO–ALBANY, NEW YORK
I hope you get to enjoy it!
I love anything sweet potato! This looks delicious! Great for fall and Thanksgiving!
All year round too 😉
Anything with sweet potatoes gets my vote and this is a helpful recipe as I am having to take care what I eat these days
Right? All the sweets!
My mouth is watering at the sight of these photos! I have food allergies so I appreciate holiday dishes that are allergy-friendly like this.
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Well you found the right food blog!
Ooh yummy – this looks delicious. A few of my friends will want to try this recipe!
I know they’ll enjoy!
Pumpkin is my favorite kind of pie. Why is it I only make it during the holidays? Adding your recipe to our thanksgiving menu.
Well this is sweet potato, but enjoy.
This sounds yummy, so perfect fir the holidays! I try to eat low carb most of the time so this definitely has my attention, I might have to add it to my list of Thanksgiving duties. 😉
It’s so easy to make it would be a shame not to 😉
This deliciousness has my name written all over it! So perfect for the Thanksgiving dessert table!
Lindsay Cotter recently posted…Nutty Maple Glazed Cookie Bars (Vegan)
Yea, sure.
I LOVE sweet potato pie! Although I do really enjoy pie crust, it doesn’t always like me. I need to give this a try!
Lecy | A Simpler Grace recently posted…Simple Gratitude | 142
Ah, really? I could never get myself to like it!
Saved your recipe, I definitely have to do this x
You’ll love it! So good!
I was drooling as I went through this post!!! This looks delicious! I’ll definitely try to make this during the week.
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Awesome! It is one delicious “pie” 😉
Your timing on this gluten free recipe is perfect. Just yesterday I was thinking about what changes I’m going to make to Thanksgiving this year because it’s my first holiday as wholly GF. Thanks for the post!
Enjoy all the pie!
Awesome recipe! Perfect for Thanksgiving.
Yup! Thanks for stating the obvious!
What a fantastic gluten free recipe!
Lol, thanks.
I have an obsession with sweet potato at the moment so this recipe seems delicious!
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Time to whip those spuds into some sweet pie then!