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Sweet Potato Bread Recipe

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This sweet potato bread recipe is delicious wholesomeness in a moist loaf. You'll love the healthy ingredients and the awesome flavor!
5 from 4 votes
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 4 minutes
Servings 1 Loaf

Equipment

  • 2 bowls for mixing ingredients
  • Hand mixer for blending
  • Silicone spatula
  • 1 Bread loaf form - 5x9 or similar
  • Parchment paper (optional) - or grease and flour your pan
  • cooling rack

Ingredients
  

Wet Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups sweet potato cooked and mashed
  • ½ - ¾ cup panela sugar - I prefer less sugar in my breads, but use the higher amount if you want it sweeter. And this goes into the wet ingredients even though its not wet.
  • ¼ cup maple syrup
  • 2 large eggs
  • ¼ cup whey, yogurt, buttermilk, or sourcream
  • ½ cup avocado or coconut oil (melted) - try to stick with healthy oils
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Dry Ingredients

  • 1 ¾ cup fresh milled einkorn flour
  • 1½ tsp baking soda
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 tsp ground ginger or 2 tsp grated
  • ½ tsp cloves
  • ½ tsp cardamom
  • ⅛ - ¼ tsp salt - I use the lesser amount, actually, but I know most people like their sweet bread fairly salty. So if you do, use the ¼ tsp.
  • Optional:
  • ½ cup walnuts or pecans
  • ½ cup raisins

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350℉
  • Line your bread pan with parchment. Alternatively, you can also grease and flour your pan.
  • Mix all the dry ingredients, except the panela sugar, in one bowl and set aside.
  • In another bowl, blend together the wet ingredients until you have a smooth batter.
  • Add the dry ingredients to the wet ones and, using a spatula, fold the flour into the wet batter with long strokes. This is also where you add your nuts and raisins if you choose to use them. Work gently till the flour is mostly incorporated.
  • Pour the batter into your prepared loaf pan and bake in the middle of the oven for approximately 60 - 70 minutes.
  • Check for doneness with a tooth pick. It should come out clean or with just a few crumbs sticking to it.
  • Turn off the oven and take out the bread. Let it sit in the pan for 5-10 minutes, before unmolding.
  • Cool the bread on a rack before slicing.

Notes

Enjoy Your Delicious Sweet Potato Bread!

This is such an easy bread to make and comes together quickly. This bread makes a great snack, a satisfying breakfast, an accompaniment to tea or coffee in the afternoon, or a side if you’re serving a holiday meal. Serve with a generous helping of butter! It is also great with nut butter, such as peanut butter, or homemade plain, or sweetened, cream cheese or clabber cheese.
It’s a great cozy and warming fall and winter bread, but I love eating it any time of the year. Right now, in March, it is perfect, because I have to do something with my remaining sweet potatoes so they don’t rot after being stored for 5 months
Keyword spice bread, sweet potato bread, sweet potatoes