This sweet potato pound cake is excellent for the holiday season Its a light and finely textured cake
Prep Time
20 mins
Dificult
Medium
Servings
2 hrs
Ingredients
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube or Bundt pan.
Make cake: Cream sugar and butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Mix in mashed sweet potatoes and vanilla until well blended. Add eggs
one at a time
mixing well after each addition. Sift together flour
baking powder
cinnamon
baking soda
nutmeg
and salt in a separate bowl; beat into potato mixture on low speed until combined. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean
about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Cool cake for 20 minutes in the pan
then invert onto a serving plate.
Make glaze: Stir together confectioners' sugar with 3 to 5 teaspoons orange juice in a small bowl until a drizzling consistency is reached.
Spoon glaze over warm cake and sprinkle with orange zest.