This easy-to-make Sweet Potato Bread is moist, fluffy, and lightly spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg. We love it as a light breakfast or a dessert after dinner.
Looking for more easy baking recipes? Try my Chocolate Chip Banana Bread or Pumpkin Pie next!
About This Recipe
This sweet potato bread recipe is one of my favorite ways to use up extra sweet potatoes we have in the fall. I always have a ton of sweet potatoes at home because we grew up eating them at almost every meal. My mom used to chop them up and throw them in the rice cooker while the rice cooked.
I'll say one of my new favorite ways to enjoy sweet potatoes is the viral sweet potato beef bowl. Go check it out if you haven't already. It's lowkey one of the best meals I've had all year, and it's really simple to prepare too.
This sweet potato bread is extremely quick to make, tasty, and you'll fall in love with its moist, tender crumb and warm fall flavors. If you eat it alongside a cup of coffee or tea, it's the perfect light breakfast. For a sweeter treat, feel free to drizzle with maple syrup or condensed milk, and call it dessert!
Key Ingredients
Sweet Potatoes: You will need 1 cup of mashed and cooked sweet potatoes. The exact amount is flexible, so it's okay if you are slightly under or over 1 cup. In terms of cooking the sweet potato, the quickest way is to peel and chop the sweet potato into 1-inch cubes, then simmer in water for 15-18 minutes until fork-tender.
Sugar: Sweet potatoes have a lot of natural sweetness, but we still need sugar to make the bread taste good. One cup of sugar may seem like a lot, but the bread is not overly sweet at all.
Oil: Typically, I use vegetable oil or canola oil. Oil keeps the crumb moist and tender.
Eggs: For binding all the ingredients together.
Vanilla extract, cinnamon, and nutmeg: For that warm, cozy flavor.
All-purpose flour: Make sure to spoon and level this into your measuring cup (as opposed to scooping the flour because it will make you overmeasure).
Baking soda: For leavening and flavor.
Salt: To bring out all the flavors.
Instructions
STEP 1: In a large bowl, whisk together the sweet potatoes, sugar, oil, milk, eggs, and vanilla extract.
STEP 2: In another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
STEP 3: Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix until smooth.
STEP 4: Scrape the batter into the loaf pan.
STEP 5: Bake for about 55-60 minutes, placing a piece of tinfoil over the top halfway through, until golden brown or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean (some crumbs are okay, but there should be no streaks of wet batter).
Sweet Potato Bread
Ingredients
- 1 cup sweet potatoes (cooked and mashed)
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ⅓ cup milk
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour (spooned and levelled)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F. Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the sweet potatoes, sugar, oil, milk, eggs, and vanilla extract.
- In another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
- Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix until smooth.
- Scrape the batter into the loaf pan.
- Bake for about 55-60 minutes, placing a piece of tinfoil over the top halfway through, until golden brown or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean (some crumbs are okay, but there should be no streaks of wet batter).
Good Wife
It's delicious 😋