Sweet Potato Bread
This Old Fashioned Sweet Potato Bread with warming fall spices is perfect by itself for a sweet breakfast, or topped with cream cheese frosting or a simple maple glaze.
Servings: 8 servings
Ingredients
- 1 cup mashed sweet potato
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup oil
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp coriander
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- ¼ tsp cloves
- ¼ tsp salt
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 350F and prepare a 1 lb loaf pan with cooking spray and baking parchment.
- In a large bowl or jug, whisk together the sweet potato, brown sugar, oil, sour cream, eggs and vanilla until smooth. Set aside.
- In another large bowl, whisk together the flour, spices and salt. Then whisk the wet mixture into the dry until you have a just combined batter.
- Pour the batter into the prepared tin, levelling the top. Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the loaf comes out clean.
- Leave to cool in the tin on a wire rack.
Notes
- Don't worry about baking it too long! This Easy Sweet Potato Bread is really difficult to dry out, but can take a while to bake depending on the temperature of your oven. Test it with the tip of a sharp knife or a wooden toothpick before taking it out, if it comes out with some batter still clinging to the toothpick, bake it for a further 5 minutes.
- Do not over-mix. To keep a light, moist crumb you want to stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients only until just combined, no more.
- It freezes well. Undecorated, you can easily freeze a well wrapped loaf for up to 1 month.
- In a pinch, use Greek yogurt: Sour cream will provide a better texture, but if you find yourself without and you still want to make this Sweet Potato Bread full fat plain Greek yogurt will work instead.
- Icing and glazes: If you want to decorate this Sweet Potato Bread, use the Cream Cheese Frosting from my Pumpkin Bread, or the Maple Glaze from my Pumpkin Scones.
- Leftovers and storage: Well wrapped, this loaf should keep for 3-4 days on the countertop.
Nutrition
Calories: 378kcal | Carbohydrates: 53g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 10g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 45mg | Sodium: 248mg | Potassium: 256mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 29g | Vitamin A: 6832IU | Vitamin C: 7mg | Calcium: 58mg | Iron: 2mg
