Sweet potato pound cake with cinnamon sauce
Sweet potato pound cake with cinnamon sauce recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups cake flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup sour cream, at room temperature
- 1 1/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 3 eggs, at room temperature
- 1, 8 ounce, sweet potato, baked, peeled and pureed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Cinnamon sauce:
- 2 cups milk
- 3 cinnamon sticks, crushed
- 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 4 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup sour cream
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
- Lightly oil an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch loaf pan.
- Sift first 5 ingredients into medium bowl.
- Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sour cream in large bowl until well blended.
- Gradually add sugar and beat until mixture is light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Mix in 1/2 cup sweet potato puree and vanilla extract.
- Stir in dry ingredients.
- Transfer to prepared pan.
- Bake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour 15 minutes.
- Cool cake in pan on rack for 30 minutes.
- Cut around sides of pan with knife.
- Turn cake out onto rack and cool.
- Cinnamon sauce:
- Combine milk and cinnamon sticks in heavy medium saucepan.
- Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean. Add bean. Bring to boil.
- Remove from heat. Cover and let steep 15 minutes.
- Whisk yolks and sugar in bowl to blend.
- Slowly beat milk mixture into egg mixture.
- Strain custard into same saucepan.
- Cook over medium low heat until custard thickens and leaves path on back of spoon when finger is drawn across, stirring constantly, about 15 minutes. Do not boil.
- Pour custard into bowl. Whisk in sour cream.
- Cover and chill until cold, stirring occasionally.
- This can be prepared 1 day ahead.
- Cut cake into slices and transfer to plates.
- Top with praline or toffee ice cream and sauce.
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