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Modified: May 6, 2025 Published: Apr 16, 2020· Cathy Brak · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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Gluten Free Sweet Potato Bread with Pecans

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What a moist and delicious snack this Sweet Potato Bread is! Moist sweet potatoes, pure maple syrup, and crunchy pecans simply combine to bake in a loaf pan and enjoy with coffee, for breakfast, or slathered with your favourite nut butter. I love that it's free from gluten, dairy, and refined sugar.

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GF Sweet Potato Loaf

The method is simple. Combine your dry ingredients. Whisk up the moist ones. Stir them together with the pecans, and scrape it all into a loaf pan to bake.

Health Benefits of Sweet Potatoes

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Raw Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes are a great vegetable, because they taste delicious and provide many health benefits. They contain antioxidants, which help to defend the body from free radicals. They're high in fibre, which aids good digestion. Research is being done into the role sweet potatoes might play in regulating blood sugar in type 2 diabetes.

How to Cook Sweet Potatoes

There are many ways to cook sweet potatoes. You can roast, bake, boil, steam, or pressure-cook them. My favourite way to cook sweet potatoes for eating on their own is to cut scrubbed or peeled potatoes into chunks, toss them in some oil, and roast them with some wonderful seasoning. This would be the least desirable way to cook them for this recipe, though. I find that they would be too dry and spongy for good results.

This recipe was developed for a moister sweet potato such as that which boiling or steaming produces. If you have a baked sweet potato that was baked whole, so it's still moist inside, that would probably work, too

Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes

My preferred method of cooking the sweet potatoes for this recipe is to use my pressure cooker. I peel the potatoes, cut them into large chunks, and cook them on high pressure for about 10 minutes. After the pressure has released, I drain and mash them to use in recipes such as this one. Extras could be measured out and frozen in portions for future baking. I would typically cook my sweet potatoes at meal time, enjoy a serving of hot, mashed sweet potatoes, and then put the rest away for making sweet potato bread later.

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Moist Gluten Free Sweet Potato Loaf

How to Make the Loaf

Gluten free flours, cooked sweet potato, eggs, pecans, and other ingredients laid out to make sweet potato bread
Assemble your ingredients.
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Line a loaf pan with parchment paper.

Whisk the dry ingredients together.

Whisk resting in dry flour mixture in a glass bowl.
whisked eggs in glass bowl

Whisk the eggs.

Stir in the sweet potatoes.

egg-sweet potato mixture in glass bowl
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Whisk in the oil, syrup, and vanilla.

Combine the two mixtures and stir in the pecans.

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sweet potato bread batter spread out in prepared loaf pan

Spread the batter into the prepared loaf pan.

Bake and cool on a wire rack.

baked gluten free sweet potato bread in pan on wire rack.
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Recipe

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Sweet Potato Bread

This nice, moist loaf punctuated with pecans is great with coffee or tea for a midday snack.
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Course: Bread, Recipes, Snack
Cuisine: American, Canadian
Keyword: candied pecans, gluten free, loaf, quick, sweet potato bread
Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour hour 10 minutes minutes
Cooling time: 10 minutes minutes
Total Time: 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes
Servings: 14 thick slices
Calories: 302kcal
Author: Cathy

Equipment

  • loaf pan
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Ingredients

  • 1 cup sorghum flour
  • ¾ cup white rice flour
  • ¼ cup tapioca flour
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 ¼ teaspoons xanthan gum
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 ⅓ cups cooked, mashed sweet potatoes
  • ¾ cup avocado oil
  • ½ cup maple syrup
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup pecan pieces

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 325° F. Line a loaf pan with parchment paper.
  • Whisk dry ingredients (flours through salt) together in a medium mixing bowl.
  • In a larger bowl, whisk the eggs.
  • Whisk the sweet potatoes into the eggs.
  • Then, whisk in the oil, syrup and vanilla.
  • Add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture. Stir until blended.
  • Stir in the pecan pieces.
  • Transfer the batter to the prepared loaf pan.
  • Bake for 60 to 70 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean when poked into the centre of the loaf. Allow to cool 10 minutes on a wire rack before removing from pan. Allow to cool completely before slicing.

Notes

Store any leftovers in the refrigerator. Sliced sweet potato bread also freezes well.

Nutrition

Serving: 1thick slice | Calories: 302kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 19g
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  1. Melody says

    February 07, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    I wondered if you have any recommendations for substitutes for white rice flour. I can do Sorghum and tapioca, but am avoiding white rice right now. (I absolutely was AMAZED by your sorghum flour pancake recipe - SO perfect, fluffy, and delicious!)

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    • Cathy says

      February 08, 2021 at 10:10 am

      Thank you so much, Melody! Can you have brown rice flour? If you can, I don't think that would change the outcome of this recipe much. Otherwise, you might try simply replacing the white rice flour with more sorghum flour as I did in the pancakes. I have NOT TESTED this, but I don't think it would be terrible. I'd love to hear how it goes!

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