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Sweet Potato Bread with Praline Sauce

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Sweet Potato Bread with Praline Sauce

Back in December I made a sweet potato casserole that I really enjoyed. The sweet potato casserole was mashed sweet potatoes baked with a pecan topping. I really liked the sweet potato and pecan combination. More recently I came across a recipe for a sweet potato bread with a pecan praline sauce that sounded really good. With pecans in the sweet potato bread and a pecan topping there was no way that I could not make this bread. This quick bread was super simple to make. The sweet potato bread with praline sauce was so good! Of course I could not resist having a slice while it was still warm from the oven… mmm… The bread was light and fluffy and it had just the right amount of sweetness to it. It has kept well and I have been enjoying it for breakfast this week. I will definitely be making this again!
I had been wondering what praline was for a while. Praline is essentially nuts covered in caramelized sugar. In this case the praline was made with pecans and brown sugar. The praline was easy to make and it tasted great. I look forward to making it again.

Sweet Potato Bread with Praline Sauce

Sweet Potato Bread with Praline Sauce

Sweet Potato Bread with Praline Sauce

Prep Time:25 minutes Cook Time:1 hour Total Time:1 hour 25 minutes Servings: 10
ingredients
  • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1/2 cup butter (room temperature)
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 2 eggs (room temperature)
  • 1/4 cup buttermilk
  • 1 cups sweet potato (oven roasted until caramelized and mashed)
  • 1/2 cup pecans (chopped)
directions
  1. Mix the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg in a bowl.
  2. Cream the butter and brown sugar in another bowl.
  3. Stir the honey, eggs, buttermilk and sweet potato into the butter and sugar.
  4. Stir the sweet potato mixture into the flour mixture.
  5. Stir in the pecans.
  6. Pour the batter into a 9×5 inch greased loaf pan.
  7. Bake in a preheated 350F/180C oven until a tooth pick pushed into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour.
  8. Pour the praline sauce on and and let cool.
Praline Topping

Praline Topping

Prep Time:25 minutes Cook Time:5 minutes Total Time:30 minutes Servings: 10
ingredients
  • 3/4 tablespoon butter
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup pecans (roasted and chopped)
  • 1 cups powered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons water
directions
  1. Cook the butter and brown sugar in a sauce pan until caramelized, about 5 minutes.
  2. Stir in the pecans.
  3. Pour the mixture into a bowl and let cool.
  4. Mix the powdered sugar into the water.
  5. Break up the praline mixture.
  6. Mix the praline and sugar water together.
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  3. cakewardrobe says

    February 28, 2008 at 3:27 am

    I’d probably sneak a piece before it was done cooking!!! That is my problem!!! Things get undercooked!!

    Thanks for your suggestion! But I don’t get it? What is S400? I uploaded at it’s largest size! 🙁 No good

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  7. giz says

    February 28, 2008 at 5:49 am

    What a winner – sweet potato bread looks like a winner – who knew? Tagged..sigh..will have to make it this weekend. Anna Olsen’s been doing praline stuff this week and I was already thinking – now I’m convinced. Looks delicious.

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  15. Elle says

    February 28, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    I have to make this. I have some scooped out mashed potato in the freezer right now that’ll be perfect in this bread! I made sweet potato skins last weekend, and had put away all the flesh that we scooped out of them. It’s meant to be, I guess. Looks delicious!

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  17. Astra Libris says

    February 28, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    Kevin, thank you so much for your lovely comment on my blog! 🙂

    Your sweet potato bread looks a-m-a-z-i-n-g!!! Anything with pralines perks me up and gets my attention Very quickly, and this looks like the most creative, scrumptious use of pralines I’ve seen in a while – YUM! I will definitely have to fix this!

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  20. Anthony says

    February 28, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    This looks SO yummy. I *love* me some sweet potato. I just found your blog via another I read and have just spent the last 45 minutes looking through being tempted from one recipe to another. All lovely looking recipes which are niec and reasy to prepare. Keep up the good work. I, for one, will be back!

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  32. CajunHiker says

    December 15, 2008 at 7:54 pm

    I have a load of sweet potatoes that I need to do something with, and I was searching for a yummy sweet potato recipe for a Cajun family holiday gathering. This looks divine and I will be making it tonight! Thanks for the recipe. 🙂

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  34. fabjems says

    February 25, 2011 at 10:34 pm

    Big fan of your cooking… searched & searched for a sweet potato cake on Google and your picture did it – although I sub a couple if items, it's what I had on hand (sour cream for buttermilk, 1/4 cup pure coconut oil for 1/4 butter sub and used 1 cup dark brown sugar, did not have honey) – and it still came out GREAT just like your pix…I did serve it with cream cheese frosting with crystallized ginger. Thanks!

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