Granny’s Sweet Potato Bread

Ingredients

• 1 sweet potato
• 1.25 cups white sugar
• 0.5 cup canola oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 2/3 cups sifted self-rising flour
• 0.5 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 0.5 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/3 cup water
• 0.5 cup chopped pecans
• cooking spray
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon butter

Steps

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Wrap sweet potato in aluminum foil.
2. Bake sweet potato in the preheated oven until easily pierced with a fork, about 1 hour. Set aside to cool.
3. Whisk white sugar and canola oil together in a bowl. Add eggs; mix well. Sift in flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Slowly whisk in water until incorporated.
4. Peel sweet potato; mash flesh into batter. Fold in ½ cup chopped pecans.
5. Reduce the oven temperature to 320 degrees F (160 degrees C). Coat a 9×5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
6. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
7. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour.
8. Heat brown sugar and butter in a small saucepan over low heat until sugar is dissolved, about 5 minutes. Stir in remaining ½ cup chopped pecans to combine. Pour brown sugar-pecan glaze over bread.