Sweet Potato Pound Cake With maple glaze
Sweet potatoes star in this moist, earthy cake. Make the maple glaze to further highlight this orange veggie’s mild sweetness.
Ingredients
- 3 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon mace (optional)
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1½ cups sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2½ cups sweet potato, cooked and mashed
- 4 eggs
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup pecans, chopped
Directions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
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Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, mace and cinnamon in a medium-sized bowl.
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In a separate bowl, beat butter and sugars at high speed until light and fluffy. Beat in the sweet potatoes and eggs at low speed, one at a time, until well incorporated. Next, beat flour mixture into the sweet potato mixture. Add vanilla.
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Pour batter into tube pan. Sprinkle the chopped pecans on top. Bake for approximately 55 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Serve warm or cold. Freezes well.
Note: If you’d like to bump the sweetness up a notch, consider finishing with a maple glaze. While the cake cools, combine 2 tablespoons milk, 3 tablespoons maple syrup, 2 cups powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla and a pinch of cinnamon in a sauce pan over medium heat. Whisk until smooth and pour warm over the cake. Top with more pecans if you like.
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