Granny's Sweet Potato Bread

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Wrap sweet potato in aluminum foil.
2. Bake sweet potato in the preheated oven until easily pierced with a fork, about 1 hour. Set aside to cool.
3. 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.
4. Peel sweet potato; mash into the batter. Fold in 1/2 cup chopped pecans.
5. Reduce oven temperature to 320 degrees F (160 degrees C). Spray a 9x5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
6. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
7. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean, about 1 hour.
8. 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.

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ssschmidt

Nov. 22, 2012

"okay. haven't had a chance to actually taste it yet but i just finished glazing the bread. a few little annoyances i had with the recipe were: i could not get the butter and brown sugar to actually tu..." See morern into a glaze as written so I added another tsp of butter; still no glaze action. then I added a small amount of water the pow! we have glaze. I stirred vigorously for about a minute until it started to caramelize, then poured it over the bread and added the pecan to the top. thought it would make it more visually attractive and it did."

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brittany mutz

Oct. 28, 2012

"I made muffins instead of bread and it was amazing they lasted two days. I also added just a dash of ginger, put walnuts and brown sugar(not melted) on top instead of the inside...." See more"

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Rae

Feb. 16, 2013

"This was really good. I didn't do the glaze and pecan topping. I bet that would be great though...." See more"