Spiced sweet potato cake with brown sugar icing
Spiced sweet potato cake with brown sugar icing recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 4, 8 ounce, red skinned sweet potatoes, yams
- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 1/4 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 4 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Icing:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 3/4 cup, packed, dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- 1/4 cup, 1/2 stick, unsalted butter
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Recipe method:
- Pierce sweet potatoes with fork.
- Microwave on high until very tender, about 8 minutes per side.
- Cool, peel and mash sweet potatoes.
- Position rack in center of oven.
- Preheat to 325 degrees F.
- Spray 12 cup Bundt pan with nonstick spray, then generously butter pan.
- Sift flour, cinnamon, ginger, baking powder, baking soda and salt into medium bowl.
- Measure enough mashed sweet potatoes to equal two cups.
- Transfer to large bowl.
- Add sugar and oil to sweet potatoes.
- Using electric mixer, beat until smooth.
- Add eggs 2 at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Add flour mixture.
- Beat just until blended.
- Beat in vanilla extract.
- Transfer batter to prepared pan.
- Bake cake until tester inserted near center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 5 minutes.
- Cool cake in pan on rack 15 minutes.
- Using small knife, cut around sides of pan and center tube to loosen cake.
- Turn out onto rack and cool completely.
- Sift powdered sugar into medium bowl.
- Stir brown sugar, whipping cream and butter in medium saucepan over medium low heat until butter melts and sugar dissolves.
- Increase heat to medium high and bring to boil.
- Boil 3 minutes, occasionally stirring and swirling pan.
- Remove from heat and stir vanilla extract.
- Pour brown sugar mixture over powdered sugar.
- Whisk icing until smooth and lightened in color, about 1 minute.
- Cool icing until lukewarm and icing falls in heavy ribbon from spoon, whisking often, about 15 minutes.
- Spoon icing thickly over top of cake, allowing icing to drip down sides of cake.
- Let stand until icing is firm, at least one hour.
- Can be prepared one day ahead.
- Cover with cake dome and let stand at room temperature.
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