Incredible Sweet Potato Spice Cake Recipe For Fall - Glen And Friends Cooking

Incredible Sweet Potato Spice Cake Recipe For Fall - Glen And Friends Cooking
Looking for an alternative to a sweet potato pie, or pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving? This sweet potato cake recipe with brown sugar icing fits the bill. It's a pumpkin spice cake... with sweet potato.

Ingredients:
250 mL (1cup) butter
250 mL (1cup)granulated sugar
2large eggs
250 mL (1cup)cooked, mashed sweet potato
5 mL (1 tsp) vanilla extract
500 mL (2cups) all-purpose flour
12 mL (2 tsp)baking powder
2 mL (tsp)coarse salt
2 mL (tsp)ground cinnamon
2 mL (tsp)ground nutmeg
2 mL (tsp) ground ginger
1 mL (tsp)ground cloves
1 mL (tsp) mace
125 mL (cup)milk
125 mL (cup)chopped pecans / any nut

Brown Sugar Icing:
125 mL (cup) butter
250 mL (1cup)packed brown sugar
Pinch of salt
45 mL (3Tbsp)35% cream
5 mL (1tsp)vanilla extract
500 mL (2cups) icing sugar


Cake Method:
Preheat oven to 180C (350F).
Cream together butter and sugar.
Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
Beat in sweet potatoes, and vanilla.Stir together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and mace.
Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternating with milk.
Beat well after each addition.
Stir in pecans.
Transfer batter into a greased 9 cake pan.
Bake about 35 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.
Cool completely before frosting.
Brown Sugar Icing Method:
Beat together butter, brown sugar, salt, cream, and vanilla.Slowly beat in icing sugar until creamy and frosting reaches a spreading consistency.


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