Sweet Potato Bread

This Southern Sweet Potato Bread is made with freshly cooked sweet potatoes, pecans, & a little pumpkin pie spice. It’s reminiscent of a pumpkin bread but so much tastier!

When sweet potatoes go on sale, one should make some sweet potato bread! 😉

My local grocery store had sweet potatoes for just $0.27 a pound, so I decided to buy a large amount of them with such a great price. They keep for a pretty long time versus most other forms of produce, so it’s a great thing to stock up on when you can. Since they were so cheap, it was a perfect excuse to whip up a batch of my Southern Sweet Potato Bread.

Sweet Potato Bread tastes very similar to pumpkin bread, but a little tastier if you ask me. I don’t know what it is exactly about it that makes me like it more, but I do. However, if you have never had sweet potato bread before – pumpkin bread is the closest thing that I can compare it to. I guess you just need to scroll down for the recipe and make it so you know what it tastes like for yourself, huh? 😉

I love this bread warm with a little butter spread on top… talk about tasty!

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Sweet Potato Bread

Ingredients

• 1½ cups white sugar
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 2 eggs beaten
• 1¾ cups sifted bread flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• ⅓ cup water
• 1 heaping cup cooked and mashed sweet potatoes
• ¾ cup chopped pecans

Instructions

• Combine sugar and oil; beat well. Add eggs and beat. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice. Stir flour mixture and water into egg mixture. Stir in sweet potatoes and chopped nuts.
• Pour batter into 2 greased small loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about one hour.