Description
One of my favorite recipes made by my grandmother and handed down to me. My Granny made this bread as a sweet treat, but it was great for breakfast.
Ingredients
- 1 sweet potato
- 1 ¼ cups white sugar
- ½ cup canola oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 ⅔ cups sifted self-rising flour
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ⅓ cup water
- ½ cup chopped pecans (Optional)
- cooking spray
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon butter
- ½ cup chopped pecans (Optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Wrap sweet potato in aluminum foil.
- Bake sweet potato in the preheated oven until easily pierced with a fork
- about 1 hour. Set aside to cool.
- Whisk white sugar and canola oil together in a bowl. Add eggs; mix well. Sift flour
- cinnamon
- and nutmeg into sugar mixture. Slowly whisk water into flour-sugar mixture until incorporated.
- Peel sweet potato; mash into the batter. Fold in 1/2 cup chopped pecans.
- Reduce oven temperature to 320 degrees F (160 degrees C). Spray a 9×5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
- Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean
- about 1 hour.
- Heat brown sugar and butter in a small saucepan over low heat until sugar is dissolved
- about 5 minutes. Add 1/2 cup chopped pecans and stir to combine. Remove from heat. Pour glaze over bread.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 2 hrs 5 mins
Total Time: 2 hrs 25 mins
Servings: 12