Spiced sweet potato bread

Spiced Sweet Potato Bread

from Ellen's kitchen, with thanks to tastingtable.com

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 tsps cinnamon
• 1 tsp cardamom
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 1/8 tsp cloves
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup oil
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/3 cup applesauce
• 1/4 cup water
• 2 tbs molasses
• 1 1/2 tightly packed cups of grated sweet potato (about 2 medium sweet potatoes)
• 1/2 cup chopped dried fruits or nuts (optional)
• 1/4 cup turbinado sugar

Preheat:

• oven to 350.  Grease one loaf pan and set aside.

Combine:

• dry ingredients (down to cloves) in bowl of stand mixer and mix to combine.  

In:

• a separate bowl, mix eggs through molasses.  Add sweet potato to wet ingredients and combine with spoon.

Pour:

• wet ingredients into dry and mix until just blended.  Add optional nuts or fruits here and stir just a few times.

Pour:

• batter into pan and sprinkle top with sugar.  Bake for 50 minutes, or until tester comes out clean.  Let cool in pan for 5 minutes, and then turn out onto rack and cool for 1 hour. 

Delicious straight out of the oven, toasted, with butter, with ice cream...Yum! :)