Sweet potato layer cake with orange cream cheese frosting
Sweet potato layer cake with orange cream cheese frosting recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 2 pounds tan skinned sweet potatoes, 3 medium
- 3 cups cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup golden brown sugar, packed
- 4 large eggs
- 2/3 cup plus 1/4 cup chopped walnuts, toasted
- 2/3 cup plus 1/4 cup dried cranberries
- Frosting:
- 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 7 3/4 cups powdered sugar, sifted
- 2 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- To finish:
- 1/4 cup sliced candied orange peel
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Pierce potatoes with fork.
- Place on small baking sheet.
- Roast potatoes until soft, about 1 hour.
- Cool, peel and mash potatoes.
- Measure 2 cups mashed potatoes.
- Cool to lukewarm.
- Reserve any remaining potatoes for another use.
- Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F.
- Butter and flour two 9 inch diameter cake pans with 2 inch high sides.
- Line pans with parchment.
- Sift flour and next 6 ingredients into medium bowl.
- Combine oil, 1 cup sugar and brown sugar in large bowl.
- Whisk until smooth.
- Whisk in eggs 1 at a time, then mashed sweet potatoes.
- Whisk in flour mixture in 3 additions.
- Stir in 2/3 cup walnuts and 2/3 cup cranberries.
- Divide batter between prepared pans.
- Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 30 minutes.
- Cool cakes completely in pans on racks.
- For frosting, using electric mixer, beat cream cheese and butter in large bowl until fluffy.
- Beat in powdered sugar, scraping down bowl often.
- Beat in orange juice concentrate and vanilla.
- Cut around pan sides.
- Turn out cakes.
- Peel off parchment.
- Place 1 cake layer, flat side up, on platter.
- Spread 3/4 cup frosting over.
- Top with second cake layer, flat side down.
- Spread remaining frosting over top and sides of cake.
- Combine orange peel, 3 tablespoons sugar, remaining 1/4 cup walnuts and 1/4 cup cranberries in small bowl.
- Stir to coat with sugar.
- Transfer to sieve.
- Sift off excess sugar.
- Sprinkle fruit and nut mixture decoratively atop cake.
- Chill until frosting sets, at least 2 hours.
- It can be made 1 day ahead.
- Cover with cake dome. Keep chilled.
- Let stand at room temperature 1 hour before serving.
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