Recipe for cooking vanilla filled sweet potato pie

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Vanilla Filled Sweet Potato Pie

1 sm. box vanilla pudding
2 eggs
1/2 c. evaporated milk
1/2 c. sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 c. clear Karo syrup
3 med. sweet potatoes
1/4 c. (1/2 stick) butter
1/2 c. brown sugar
2 tsp. nutmeg
2 tsp. vanilla extract or flavoring
1 deep dish pie shell

Prepare vanilla pudding according to pkg. directions; set aside.

Boil and mash sweet potatoes. Melt butter. Mix together the sweet potatoes, butter, eggs, milk, both sugars, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla extract or flavoring and syrup. Place a shallow layer of pie mixture into pie crust shell. Next, place a layer of vanilla pudding over the pie mixture. Fill the remaining space in the pie shell with pie mixture. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 mins. or until done.