Sweet Potato Bread

During our first year here in Ohio, we experimented growing sweet potatoes. Actually what happened is I bought a sweet potato plant, stuck it in the garden, it overtook a large portion of said garden, and then we dug up a TON of sweet potatoes. That was 2011. Just last week I FINALLY used up the last of the sweet potato puree I made and froze back in 11/11 according to the bag.

This is just a small amount of our harvest.

I decided I wanted to make some sweet potato bread and muffins. I don't know why. I just wanted some homemade sweet bread goodness! Plus who doesn't want to make something that uses cinnamon, nutmeg, and brown sugar? As you can imagine my house smelled heavenly while these babies were baking.

So to christen my new blog I'm going to share the recipe I used. Please note that I skipped the first two steps because I already had my sweet potato puree.

Sweet Potato Bread
Makes 3 mini loaves or 24 muffins

¾ cup Butter, softened
2¼ cups Firmly packed Brown Sugar
1½ cups Sweet potato Puree
2 Eggs
2½ cups Flour
¾ tsp Salt
¾ tsp Ground Nutmeg
¾ tsp Ground Ginger
1½ tsp Baking soda
1 tbsp Ground Cinnamon
3/8 tsp ground cloves
½ cup Water

1. Scrub one large sweet potato, peel and cut into 2-inch long pieces, place in a small saucepan, and
cover with water. You can also use canned sweet potatoes.

2. Cook 25 minutes and puree in a food processor or mash with a potato masher.

3. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

4. Butter and flour bread pan or line muffin tin with muffin papers.

5.With an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy; stir in sweet potato puree
and egg.

6. Sift together flour, salt, nutmeg, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon and cloves. Stir half of the dry
ingredients into creamed mixture; stir in water, then stir in remaining dry ingredients.

7. Bake until dry on top and a skewer inserted in center comes out clean. Muffins take around 25 minutes to bake, bread will take 45 minutes, depending on the oven and pan size.Serve warm

Then sit back and enjoy! All four of my kids LOVE these muffins and that is bigger than a two thumbs
up rating. ;)

Nothing better than a warm muffin and cup of hot coffee on a cool autumn morning!