Easy Sweet Potato Pound Cake Recipe

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Loaded with warm fall spices and toasty pecans and topped with a decadent brown sugar cake glaze, this is one of the best sweet potato pound cakes your taste buds will encounter.  It’s a simple, easy pound cake recipe that will be the hit of your fall gatherings and your Thanksgiving Day dessert table.

Down south we can’t have Fall or Thanksgiving without sweet potatoes in one form or another.  So, in honor of the cooler temps and changing leaves, let’s celebrate and bake us up a southern sweet potato pound cake. 

This recipe combines two Southern favorites, pound cake and sweet taters, into one mouthwatering treat that will make grandmammy so proud. So grab your apron and get ready to bake up a storm, because this sweet potato pound cake is about to become your new favorite fall dessert.

Why You’ll Love This Sweet Potato Pound Cake Recipe

• The cinnamon, nutmeg, toasted pecans and sweet potatoes give this cake a delicious, cozy fall flavor.
• Made with sweet potatoes and cream cheese, it’s such a moist and tender sweet potato pound cake..
• This recipe is easy and simple to follow.
• The best brown sugar cake glaze is so decadent and yummy.

Ingredients In Easy Sweet Potato Pound Cake

• 8 oz Cream Cheese – Softened
• ½ cup Butter – Room temperature
• 2 cups Sugar
• 4 Eggs Large – Room Temperature
• 2½ cups Cooked Sweet Potatoes – You can use roasted, boiled or microwaved sweet potatoes
• 3 cups All Purpose Flour – Sifted
• 2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• ¼ tsp Salt
• 2 tsp Cinnamon 
• 1 tsp Nutmeg
• 3 tsp Vanilla
• 2 cups Toasted Pecans (how to toast pecans) – Toasting the pecans is optional.  Walnuts can be substituted for pecans. Nuts are optional.
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons heavy cream
• 3/4 cup powdered sugar – sifted

How To Make Sweet Potato Pound Cake

• Preheat oven to 350°
• Grease and flour Bundt or Tube Pan
• Mix your potatoes with a mixer or food processor until they are super smooth and have no strings and measure out 2 1/2 cups. Set aside.
• Beat cream cheese and butter at medium speed until creamy
• Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Until grittiness is gone.
• Add eggs one at a time. Beat just until yellowness is gone.
• Add vanilla extract
• Add mashed sweet potatoes and mix well
• In separate bowl mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg
• Gradually add the flour mixture to the butter mixture. Mixing at low speed.
• In a separate bowl toss 1 to 2 tablespoons of flour with the toasted pecans (this will keep the pecans from sinking). 
• Fold in toasted pecans.
• Spoon batter into greased bundt or tube pan
• Bake at 350° from 55 minutes to 70 minutes or until a long knife inserted in center comes out clean .
• Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
• Remove from pan and cool completely.
• When cake is cool spoon or pour brown sugar cake glaze on cake.

How To Make The Best Brown Sugar Cake Glaze

• Melt butter and brown sugar in a small saucepan over low to medium heat.
• Once brown sugar and butter are melted, add vanilla extract and heavy cream. Mix in and remove from heat.
• Whisk in powdered sugar until smooth.
• Let the glaze cool 8 to 10 minutes.
• If glaze gets a bit hard If glaze gets a bit hard (might sit to long waiting for cake to cool), add 1 to 2 tablespoons of milk and stir.
• Spoon or pour glaze on cooled pound cake.

Tips For The Best Sweet Potato Pound Cake

• You can boil or microwave your sweet potatoes, but I like to roast mine.  Roasting sweet potatoes allows the natural sugars to caramelize and intensifies the flavor.
• For the love of pound cake, don’t use low fat or no fat ingredients in your sweet potato pound cake.  It’s pound cake folks.
• Beat butter, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. No gritty texture should remain.
• Add eggs one at a time and beat until yellow is just gone.
• Toasting your pecans draws the natural oils to the surface . This enhances the rich flavor of the pecans and makes this sweet potato pound cake with pecans even better.
• To keep your pecans from sinking to the bottom of your pound cake, toss them in 1 to 2 tablespoons of flour before adding them to the batter.
• Instead of using a bundt pan or tube pan, you can use (2) 9×5 loaf pans. This will make 2 amazing sweet potato loaf cakes.

Easy Sweet Potato Pound Cake Q&A

Can I Use Canned Sweet Potatoes?  Yes, you can use 2 1/2 cups of canned sweet potatoes.  Make sure to drain the canned sweet potatoes well and mix until they are super smooth.

How Do I Toast Pecans?  Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil and spread the pecans in a single layer. Bake at 350F for 5 to 10 minutes.  The pecans will darken a couple of shades and the nutty aroma will be strong.

How Do I Store Sweet Potato Pound Cake?  Wrap in plastic wrap or aluminum foil or place in an airtight container and store at room temperature for up to 4 days or in the fridge for up to 7 days.

Can I Freeze Sweet Potato Pound Cake?  Yes, wrap tightly with plastic wrap and then aluminum foil or place in a freezer safe container and freeze up to 3 months.  You will want to thaw it 2 hours before eating.

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FALL In Love With Easy Sweet Potato Pound Cake

You will love this easy sweet potato pound cake from scratch.  With its delicious melody of fall spices, it’s guaranteed to impress your friends and family.  This moist, flavorful sweet potato pound cake is the perfect fall dessert.  So, what are you waiting for?  Get baking and treat you and your taste buds to a slice or two or three of this yummy southern sweet potato pound cake today.

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