Description
Made with real mashed sweet potato and warm fall spices, this gluten free sweet potato cake bakes up soft, moist, and tender every time. A simple cream cheese frosting and crunch of toasted pecans make it just as at home on a holiday dessert table as it is on a Tuesday night.
Ingredients
Cake:
- 1 cup Unsalted Butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
- 2 large Eggs
- 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
- 1 cup mashed Sweet Potato
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 2 cups Gluten Free Flour
- 2 tsp. Baking Powder
- 1 tsp. Baking Soda
- 1 tsp. Sea Salt
- 1 tsp. Ground Cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. Ground Nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp. Ground Cloves
- 1/2 cup Pecans, roughly chopped for on top of frosting
Frosting:
- 8 ounces Cream Cheese
- 1/2 cup Unsalted Butter, at room temperature
- 2 tsp. Vanilla Extract
- 2 cups Powdered Sugar, sifted to remove lumps
Instructions
Cook your sweet potato, let it cool, remove skin and then mash. I cook my sweet potato in my instant pot for 10 minutes on manual and then let the steam release naturally.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Grease a 9x13 baking pan or two 9-inch cake pans with butter or coconut oil. Set aside.
In a mixing bowl whisk together the gluten free flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Set aside.
In the bowl of your stand mixer add the butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar. Beat these ingredients together until well combined and fluffy. Add the eggs, vanilla, sweet potato and milk. Blend until ingredients are well combined.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and beat together until just combined and your cake batter forms.
Pour the cake batter into the greased baking pan(s) and spread with a spoon or spatula until in an even layer.
Baked at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Let the cake stand in the pan for 10 minutes and then invert onto a cooling rack.
Once the cake is cooled combine the frosting.
In the bowl of your stand mixer add the cream cheese, room temperature butter and vanilla. Blend until all lumps are gone. You will want to stop the mixer a couple of times and using a spatula push the ingredients down the side of the mixer bowl and then blend again.
Once those ingredients are smooth add the sifted powdered sugar and beat the frosting until it is smooth.
Frost your completely cooled cake(s) and then if you like sprinkle chopped pecans on top.
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- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- Category: Cake
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American