Sweet Recipe – Whole Wheat Sweet Potato Bread

This bread is refined sugar-free and can be made vegan if you use an egg substitute, like flax eggs.

Ingredients

• cooking spray
• 1 sweet potato
• 1 ¾ cups sifted whole wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 pinch ground ginger
• 1 ¼ cups applesauce
• 2 eggs
• ¼ cup maple syrup
• ⅓ cup chopped walnuts

Cooking Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a 9x5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
2. Place sweet potato on a microwave-safe plate and pierce skin 5 or 6 times. Cook in the microwave, rotating halfway through, until tender, 5 to 8 minutes. Cool until easily handled, about 5 minutes. Peel and mash in a small bowl.
3. Mix whole wheat flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt together in a large bowl.
4. Whisk applesauce, eggs, and maple syrup together in a separate bowl. Mix in 1 cup mashed sweet potato.
5. Pour applesauce mixture over flour mixture; stir to combine. Fold in walnuts. Pour into the prepared loaf pan.
6. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 45 to 55 minutes. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes; invert onto a wire rack and let cool completely, about 20 minutes.

Nutrition Facts

• calories213.1
• carbohydrateContent38.2 g
• cholesterolContent46.5 mg
• fatContent5 g
• fiberContent5.2 g
• proteinContent6.6 g
• saturatedFatContent0.8 g
• sodiumContent270.2 mg
• sugarContent11.6 g