Wholesome sweet potatoes, creamy almond butter, and hearty oats combine to make a slightly sweet and superbly spiced quick bread. This gluten-free recipe uses a handful of pantry staples and is best topped with a generous dab of honey butter.
Oh, friend what a very odd time we are living in right now! I am sitting in my new office set up in my apartment in NYC, with my co-workers (Penelope and Jordan) never more than 5 feet away.
We are figuring out our new normal, new routine, and doing the best we can to stay positive.
Do you know what helps?
Baking.
Baking helps.
This recipe is so straight forward using super simple ingredients and is easily modifiable to accommodate items you have on hand. My new cooking philosophy is (Tim Gunn inspired) “Make It Work”. Figure it out, make it work, adust when necessary.
It's serendipitous when you find a baking recipe that isn't fussy and can just hang and mold to adjustments. Cinnamon Sweet Potato Bread, you are exactly what I need right now!
Let's get cooking.
INGREDIENTS TO MAKE SWEET POTATO BREAD:
- Sweet potato – I used leftover roasted sweet potato, you can easily use canned sweet potato puree.
- Rolled oats – Not quick oats, they will turn too mushy and “glue” like.
- Almond butter – I bet peanut butter would also work!
- Eggs
- Honey – You can easily sub maple syrup but I love honey in this recipe
- Baking soda, salt, and cinnamon
TOOLS YOU WILL NEED:
- 8.5″ loaf pan – I love this robin egg blue loaf pan from Amazon (affiliate)
- Mixing bowls
- High-speed blender, or food processor
- Mixing spoon
- Spatula
SIMPLE STEPS TO MAKE THIS WHOLESOME RECIPE:
Prepare your own oat flour by blending oats until they resemble flour, for tips on making perfect oat flour every time check out this post.
I used a blender for the rest of the batter, sweet potato, almond butter, eggs, and vanilla, then stir into the dry ingredients.
Once you pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan, generously sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top. This bread is like a cinnamon dream come true with notes throughout the moist dough and a perfectly crispy cinnamon sugar topping.
Bake until perfect. Cool. Eat.
Maybe share, maybe don't, totally up to you 🙂
A NOTE ON SWEET POTATOES:
I used leftover baked sweet potatoes for this recipe. I have a habit of roasting several sweet potatoes early in the week to eat in a variety of ways, stuffed sweet potato, breakfast sweet potato, scooped into smoothies, etc. Follow this simple tutorial to make perfect baked sweet potatoes.
- You will need about 2 large sweet potato to yield 1.5 cups of mashed sweet potato
How to cook sweet potato:
You can roast, steam, or even microwave your sweet potato:
- Roast – 400° for 40-50 minutes until easily pierced with a fork. Scoop out the flesh and set aside
- Steam – peel sweet potato and chop, place in a steamer basket and steam until tender (about 5 minutes). Remove from steamer and mash with a fork.
- Microwave – Poke holes in sweet potato, cook in the microwave for 4-8 minutes until tender. Scoop out the flesh and set aside.
Canned sweet potato puree, pumpkin puree, or butternut squash puree will also work.
NUTRITION NERD CORNER 🤓
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS OF SWEET POTATO
I need zero convincing to eat sweet potatoes, they are truly one of my favorite foods. Satisfying, sweet, creamy, and I can use them in a million different ways.
A few reasons why I think you should eat more sweet potatoes:
- A good source of fiber, most of the fiber is found in the skin. Make sure to wash your sweet potato well and eat the skin (this recipe does not contain sweet potato skin)
- Rich in vitamins A, C, and manganese. Vitamin A is an essential nutrient for good immune health, bring on the sweet potatoes!
- A good source of antioxidants.
- A recent study found that fiber from sweet potatoes improved the microbiome profile promoting better gut health. This was a mouse study where they found that supplementing with sweet potato fiber increased the number of beneficial bacteria in the gut and improved digestion and absorption in the GI tract, so cool!
DIETARY MODIFICATIONS:
This recipe is naturally gluten-free and vegetarian.
- Vegan – Replace the egg for a flax egg or chia egg, replace the honey with maple syrup.
- Low Fodmap – Replace the honey with equal parts maple syrup
- Paleo – I imagine this recipe would work with almond flour 1:1, but I haven't tested it. If you try let me know!
WAYS TO EAT SWEET POTATO BREAD:
- A generous dab of honey butter (my prefered way)
- A drizzle of almond butter
- Cream cheese – oh man this would be so good!
- Tahini drizzle
- Peanut butter and sliced banana
- Strawberry chia seed jam generously smeared on top of a big thick slice!
MORE SWEET POTATO RECIPES YOU WILL LOVE:
How to Bake Sweet Potatoes
Pineapple Sweet Potato Muffins
Sweet Potato Pancakes
Sweet Potato Breakfast Hash
Tofu and Greens Stuffed Sweet Potato
Healthy Sweet Potato Casserole
I hope you love this super easy cinnamon sweet potato bread recipe! If you make it be sure to tag me, @abrapappa on Instagram so I can see your masterpiece!
Cinnamon Sweet Potato Bread
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
Wet Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups mashed (cooked) sweet potato *See notes*
- 1/2 cup almond butter
- 1/4 cup honey
- 3 large eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Cinnamon Sugar Topping
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tbsp coconut palm sugar or brown sugar
Honey Butter (optional)
- 1 tbsp unsalted butter softened
- 1 tsp honey
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°, prepare an 8.5" loaf pan by lining with parchment paper.
- Place oats in a high speed blender and process until the oats are broken down and resemble flour.
- Add oats (now oat flour) to a large bowl and whisk together with remaining dry ingredients.
- In a blender combine all wet ingredients, blend until smooth. It will be very thick.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir until well incorporated.
- Pour batter into loaf pan.
- In a small bowl combine coconut palm sugar (or brown sugar) and cinnamon. Sprinkle on top of loaf.
- Bake in oven for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Allow to cool before eating.
- Whisk together softened butter and honey. Serve sweet potato bread with honey butter.
Notes
- You will need about 2 large sweet potato to yield 1.5 cups of mashed sweet potato
Nutrition
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