Sweet potato bread

This sweet potato specie is perfect for sweater weather with its warming spices and succulent soft texture. It’s similar to pumpkin specie and no mixer is required, making this specie quick, easy, and super satisfying!

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Warm, fresh, home-cooked specie is nonflexible to beat. You can taste the love and effort that went into it, and that’s why I love this quick and easy sweet potato specie recipe! You don’t have to be good at making specie to have this specie turn out perfectly, and this is unconfined way to use your leftover sweet potatoes.

This is a quick specie (sometimes tabbed a sweet bread), not a yeast bread. It is very similar to pumpkin bread but the savor of the sweet potatoes is milder and less unruly than pumpkin. So if you are itching for some fall flavors, but don’t want to wear pumpkin savor out on your family already, this recipe is the perfect compromise!

Sweet Potato Specie Ingredients

This recipe uses ingredients you likely once have in your pantry. That’s why this recipe is so unconfined for leftover sweet potatoes! You don’t have to go out of your way to create a fun new sweet potato treat.

Brown Sugar: Brown sugar has molasses in it, which gives this specie a deep rich flavor.
Vegetable Oil: You could use any oil you prefer, like avocado or canola, but I used vegetable oil here.
Eggs: I unchangingly use large grade A eggs.
All-Purpose flour: All-purpose flour will be the easiest to work with and make your specie come out nice and fluffy.
Baking Soda: Sultry soda is a leavening wage-earner and will help your specie rise.
Baking Powder: Sultry powder is flipside leavening wage-earner that will requite your specie a light and fluffy texture.
Salt: Salt enhances all of the warm flavors in this bread. It moreover balances the sweetness from the sugar and sweet potatoes.
Milk: I like to use milk in my specie considering the fat keeps this specie moist and soft. You could use a milk volitional like almond milk or soy milk to make this specie dairy free.
Sweet Potatoes: Make sure to melt and mash your sweet potatoes surpassing making this bread. If you are making your sweet potatoes right now, scroll lanugo to find my tips for subtracting increasingly savor to your sweet potato.

Spices

I love to use warm fall spices in my sweet breads. You could hands use a spice tousle like a pumpkin pie spice, or use stick to what is listed below.

Ground Cinnamon: Cinnamon goes perfectly with the sweet potatoes (ever had a cinnamon and marshmallow sweet potato casserole?!).
Ground Nutmeg: Nutmeg adds a nutty and earthy savor to your bread. It brings out the natural earthy flavors of the sweet potato.
Ground Cloves: I veritably love the savor of clove in this bread! If cloves aren’t for you, or you don’t have them on hand, you can use allspice or cardamom instead.

6-photo collage of specie dough ingredients stuff mixed together and then widow to a pan, ready to bake.

Making Sweet Potato Bread

This specie is so simple to make! You will be surprised by how quickly it comes together, and how succulent it tastes. It is moreover a unconfined way to cross-utilize leftover sweet potatoes and requite them a new life in a succulent way!

Spray: Preheat the oven to 350℉ and spray a 9×5 specie pan with pan spray. Set aside.
Cook Sweet Potatoes: If your sweet potatoes are not once cooked, swash a medium pot of water and add peeled and chopped sweet potatoes. Next, swash for 12 minutes until fork tender. Then phlebotomize and let tomfool surpassing mashing or running through a potato ricer.
Mix: In a large trencher combine the brown sugar and oil. Then add the eggs and mix until just combined.
Whisk: In a medium trencher add the flour, sultry soda, sultry powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Whisk to combine.
Stir in Dry Ingredients: Add the dry ingredients to the sugar mixture successive with the milk, starting and ending with the flour. Gently stir in the mashed sweet potatoes.
Bake: Add the thrash to the prepared specie pan and torch for 50-60 minutes, until a toothpick comes out wipe from the center. Let tomfool completely surpassing slicing.

Roast the Sweet Potatoes for Extra Flavor!

Want to add depth of savor to this sweet bread? Here is a quick and easy tip that will hoist this recipe- instead of humid the sweet potatoes, roast them! Then follow the specie recipe as written.

In the Oven: Prepare your sweet potatoes by peeling and slicing them into one-inch squares, and place on a pan with plenty of your oil of choice. Then melt them in the oven at 425 degrees until fork tender. If this is your first time roasting sweet potatoes, follow my Roasted Honey Cinnamon Butter Sweet Potatoes recipe for the weightier sweet potatoes you’ve overly had!

Top-down view of sweet potato bread, cut into thick slices.

How to Store this Sweet Potato Bread

Keep this specie moist and soft for up to 4 days by pursuit these storage tips.

On the Counter: Once the specie is completely cooled to room temperature, place it on a plate with plastic wrap and leave it on the counter for up to 4 days.
In the Freezer: You can store this specie for up to 3 months in the freezer in an snapped plastic bag. Gently warm at room temperature surpassing consuming.

3 slices of specie stacked on top of each other.