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Sweet Potato Pound Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

By Lorraine

 
 
Easy bundt cake recipe for Sweet Potato Pound Cake with cream cheese frosting.
Sweet Potatoes in a cake? It sounded unique to me and that is just why I wanted to give it a try. The result of sweet potato pound cake is a mild, almost pumpkin-flavor cake that looks pretty and is extra special with the cream cheese frosting.
 
Easy bundt cake recipe for Sweet Potato Pound Cake with cream cheese frosting.
 

 Sweet Potato Pound Cake

source: Taste of Home

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YIELD: 12 servings

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 2 cups cold mashed sweet potatoes

FROSTING

  • 4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
  • 2 1/4 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS

preheat oven to 350F

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and nutmeg; add to creamed mixture alternately with sweet potatoes. Beat just until combined (batter will be stiff). After beating with the mixer, use spatula to stir the bottom of the bowl to ensure all of the batter is combined evenly.

Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan; smooth top. Bake at 350° for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.

To Make Frosting:

Beat the cream cheese and powdered sugar until light and creamy. Add the milk and vanilla extract and beat on medium speed until combined. Spread the frosting over the top of the cooled cake.

How to cook sweet potatoes

Easy bundt cake recipe for Sweet Potato Pound Cake with cream cheese frosting.
To cook the sweet potatoes, scrub and place in a foil lined pan. Stab each potato several times with a knife.  Cover with foil and bake in a 400 degree oven for about 1 hour or until knife slides easily and the potato is tender. (If I am planning to serve sweet potatoes for dinner I don’t cover them because I like the crispy skin. When baked covered with foil, the skins will be soft)
 
Notice in the photos, the thick consistency of the batter.
 
If you like this recipe you might also enjoy:
Cream Cheese Pound Cake with Snowy White Frosting
 
cream cheese pound cake with snowy white frosting
 

 
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Easy bundt cake recipe for Sweet Potato Pound Cake with cream cheese frosting.

 

   

Filed Under: Cakes & Cupcakes, Recipes, Sweet Treats Tagged With: cake

Comments

  1. Elizabeth says

    November 1, 2019 at 9:13 am

    My first ever completely from scratch cake, and I picked a good one! This is delicious and was a huge hit! This is definitely going to become a fall family staple. Thank you for sharing!

    Reply
    • Lorraine says

      November 1, 2019 at 8:43 pm

      Hello Elizabeth,

      I am so happy to hear the Sweet Potato Pound Cake you made turned out so well and you and your family enjoyed it! Thanks you so much for leaving your comment 🙂

      Kindly, Lorraine

      Reply
  2. Debby Ray says

    January 22, 2016 at 2:49 am

    This has to be absolutely delish…anything with sweet potatoes is so yummy in my book!

    Reply
  3. handmade by amalia says

    January 21, 2016 at 4:54 pm

    I can't almost catch the scent of the spices, it looks delicious. |Pinned!
    Amalia
    xo

    Reply
  4. Sue says

    January 18, 2016 at 5:16 pm

    I always have a few sweet potatoes left over, this sounds so delicious, thanks for sharing, I am printing it.
    have a great week,
    Sue

    Reply
  5. Cheryl says

    January 17, 2016 at 3:17 am

    I am seeing this cake in my future…this week!!

    Reply
  6. Lea says

    January 16, 2016 at 8:36 pm

    Well, probably going to have to make this one. We love sweet potatoes just about any way you can fix them. Happy weekend!

    Reply
  7. podso says

    January 15, 2016 at 8:36 pm

    I think I'm going to try this, but I wonder how many potatoes one would bake to yield two cups of mashed?

    Reply
  8. janice15 says

    January 15, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    Looks and sounds delishes i will have to try it thanks .. Happy weekend with love Janice

    Reply
  9. Preeti says

    January 15, 2016 at 4:52 pm

    It looks yummy!! I have never heard about sweet potato cake earlier. Thanks for sharing!!

    Reply

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