Peanut Butter Sweet Potato Bread is soft, sweet, and packed with peanut butter flavor. A delicious plant-based recipe for fall.
Have you fallen in love with sweet potatoes yet? If not, you're about to. It's fall, sweet potatoes are in season, and this Peanut Butter Sweet Potato Bread is calling your name.
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Sweet potatoes are such an incredible food. Nutritionally, they've got fiber, healthy carbs, and tons of vitamins and minerals. They're super versatile: you can roast them by themselves or with veggies, bake them in brownies or blondies, make fries, use them in soup, add them to salad, make hummus, or bake them into bread!
Best of all, sweet potatoes are tasty! Depending on what kind you use and how you cook them, they can range from sticky sweet and dense to light and earthy. They can hide nicely in a dish or be the star of the show. They're definitely on my list of top 5 favorite foods. I hope they're on yours too!
What is sweet potato bread?
The obvious answer is that it's bread made with sweet potatoes.
The non-obvious answer is that sweet potatoes serve as one of the wet ingredients, making up the bulk of this bread. As a starch, they help bind the bread together.
They also give it a slightly sweet flavor, with a bit of earthiness (<--trust me, it's good).
This specific bread is peanut butter flavored. So it uses sweet potato, but peanuts are the co-stars of this show. Peanut butter and sweet potato go so well together - they are one of my favorite combinations! The sweet-savory-salty mix is amazing.
Now that we have a better understanding of the bread itself, let's dig into the ingredients.
Peanut Butter Sweet Potato Bread Ingredients
- Baked Sweet Potato: Baking the sweet potatoes (as opposed to steaming them) gives them tons of extra flavor. You'll notice that when you bake a sweet potato, it will start oozing gooey stuff. This is great, because it's giving us a richer flavor.
- Date Sugar: Since this is a sweet bread, we're adding a bit of sugar.
- Crunchy Peanut Butter: The key here is crunchy. By using crunchy peanut butter we get bites of peanut dispersed in the bread. If you don't have crunchy peanut butter, don't worry, just stir in some extra peanuts and you'll be good to go!
- Date Syrup: A little liquid sweetener balances out the wet-to-dry ratio.
- Ground Flax: Flax serves as a binder and replaces the eggs you might find in a 'normal' bread recipe.
- Vanilla Extract: For vanilla flavor.
- Cinnamon: A touch of cinnamon complements the sweet potato really well.
- Peanut Powder: We're replacing some of the flour you might find in a typical bread recipe with peanut powder. This adds extra peanut butter flavor and some awesome plant-based protein.
- Oat Flour: We will still use some oat flour to achieve the correct bread texture.
- Baking Powder: To help the bread rise.
- Salt: A pinch of salt helps create the optimal sweet-savory-salty mix.
- Chopped Peanuts: We'll add some peanuts to the top of this bread for extra peanut butter flavor AND extra crunch.
How to Make Peanut Butter Sweet Potato Bread
Start by mashing your sweet potatoes.
Then, add the date sugar, peanut butter, date syrup, ground flax, vanilla extract, and cinnamon. Stir until combined.
Next, stir in the dry ingredients: peanut powder, oat flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix until you get a nice dough/batter.
Spread it into a loaf pan and top with the chopped peanuts.
Bake the bread for about 20 minutes, until the inside is cooked through. Then let it cool. Slice it and enjoy!
FAQ & Expert Tips
This bread is made from whole-food plant-based ingredients, so it won't stay fresh as long as a bread with more processed ingredients. BUT you can store it on the counter with some aluminum foil wrapped around it or in the fridge.
Yes. I recommend slicing the bread before you freeze it so it is easier to thaw and eat. Defrost it by leaving it out on the counter until it is the appropriate temperature.
This bread is not like toast, but you may even want to put it in the toaster and get a nice crisp on the outside. Experiment with the taste and texture that you like best!
Recipe Prayer
Jesus, thank you for healthy sweet potatoes. We are grateful for vegetables that are in season. Amen.
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📖 Recipe
Peanut Butter Sweet Potato Bread
Ingredients
- 10 Ounces Baked Sweet Potato skins removed
- ½ Cup Date Sugar
- ¼ Cup Crunchy Peanut Butter
- 2 Tablespoons Date Syrup
- 2 Tablespoons Ground Flax
- 2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- ¾ Cup Peanut Powder
- ½ Cup Oat Flour
- 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
- 1 Teaspoon Salt decrease to ½ teaspoon if using salted peanut butter
- ½ Teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1-2 Tablespoons Chopped Peanuts for topping
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350. Line a loaf pan with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl, mash the sweet potato.
- Add the date sugar, peanut butter, date syrup, ground flax, and vanilla extract. Stir until combined.
- Add the peanut powder, oat flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Mix well.
- Spread the mixture into the prepared pan. Top with chopped peanuts, if desired.
- Bake for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the loaf comes out clean. Let cool 15 minutes. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is an estimate.
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