A recipe for sweet potato quick bread. It is a moist bread made with cooked and mashed sweet potatoes, chopped pecans, and brown sugar. Great toasted and served with butter.
Course
Bread
Cuisine
American
Prep Time20minutes
Cook Time1hour10minutes
Total Time1hour30minutes
AuthorRenee
Ingredients
1 1/2cupsflour
2teaspoonsbaking powder
1/4teaspoonsalt
1teaspoonground cinnamon
1/2teaspoonground ginger
1/4teaspoonground nutmeg
1/2cupgranulated sugar
1/2cupfirmly packed dark brown sugar
1cupchopped pecans
2large eggs
1/4cupvegetable or canola oil
1/3cupunsweetened applesauce
2tablespoonshalf-and-half or milk
1cupcooked and mashed sweet potato
Instructions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Lighly grease a 9- X 5-inch loaf pan.
Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, granulated sugar, and dark brown sugar in a large bowl. Stir in chopped pecans.
Whisk together eggs, oil, applesauce, half-and-half, and sweet potato in a medium bowl until smooth.
Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Stir just until moistened.
Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
Bake for 60 to 70 minutes or until a toothpick or cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool bread in the pan for 15 minutes.
Use a knife to loosen the bread from the edges of the pan. Remove bread from pan and cool completely on a wire rack.
Recipe Notes
A recipe for sweet potato quick bread. It is a moist bread made with cooked and mashed sweet potatoes, chopped pecans, and brown sugar. Great toasted and served with butter.