what i made last night: sweet potato bread (original recipe)

[pennie_dreadful]

So.  Sweet potato bread.  I had the idea to buy a disposable camera and have the prints put on a disc so I could upload pictures of the whole process to my journal.  Because without the images to go with the recipes, I feel like a fraud; not a real food blogger.  Note to self: always use the flash on a disposable camera, even if it is broad daylight and all the lights are on.  Plus the tech screwed up some of the photos; they're off center and you can see part of the next frame.  WTF, thanks.  Well anyway, for what it's worth, if you can even see what it is supposed to be, here it is.


The ingredients are: 2 cups of self rising flour, 2 teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice, 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1 1/2 cups buttermilk, 3/4 cups butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 eggs, and 2 cups of mashed sweet potato. 

 

Preheat oven to 350F.  Beat eggs, then add butter and sugar.  Cream together for a minute or so before adding buttermilk and vanilla.  Then slowly incorporate the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, spice), then fold in mashed sweet potato.  

Grease your bread pans.  You can use a regular cake pan or little mini loaf pans.  I got a bunch of cute ones from Nana:
 

 

If using a regular sized pan, bake for forty to fifty minutes, if using little ones like this bake for thirty minutes.

The finished products:
 

 

Comments

[aurillia.livejournal.com]

YUM!

What is pumpkin pie spice? Never heard of it. Is it cinnamon and nutmeg? Oh those little tins from your Nana are so cute!!

Disposable cameras are more trouble than they're worth - they only seem to work properly if you're outside on a bright sunny day. Very bright.

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

It's cinnamon and nutmeg and I think maybe ginger? I would have just used cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger but I had the spice mix stuff and I wanted to use it up. I'd rather save the "good stuff" for when I know exactly what I'm doing and know it will be good, rather than an experiment.

Ugh, I know that disposable cameras are lousy, but all in all I spent about seven dollars on it and the disk verses eighty on a digital. You get what you pay for, eh?

okay

[newwaytowrite.livejournal.com]

what did you think of the finished product in terms of taste, texture and the like?

Also I remembered it is 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

It was very moist and dense, as far as texture goes, smooth and velvety and just about as perfect as it could have been. I think next time I'll use individual spices, though; it could have used more zing. However I wanted to make sure I had enough spices to make a last batch of ginger snaps. (I did what you suggested, adding more ginger and some black pepper, and oh my god. You were right on.)

Oh and also for a midnight snack last night I buttered up a few slices, sprinkled with cinnamon and toasted them and that was pretty damn tasty, too.