“If you like sweet potato pie, you’ll like this sweet potato pound cake! There are few things that’ll warm your heart like a slice of this yummy cake.” ~ Mama Peggy
Ingredients
- ▢ — 1 ¼ cup mashed sweet potatoes
- ▢ — 1 pkg cream cheese (8 oz, softened)
- ▢ — ½ cup butter (softened)
- ▢ — 2 cups sugar
- ▢ — 4 lg eggs
- ▢ — 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ▢ — 2 tsp baking powder
- ▢ — 1 tsp baking soda
- ▢ — ¼ tsp salt
- ▢ — 1 tsp ground allspice
- ▢ — 1 tsp vanilla flavoring
Instructions
- ▢ — Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- ▢ — Beat cream cheese and butter at medium speed until creamy.
- ▢ — Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy.
- ▢ — Add eggs one at a time, beating just until yellow disappears.
- ▢ — Add sweet potatoes and beat well.
- ▢ — Stir together flour, next three ingredients and if desired allspice, in a medium bowl.
- ▢ — Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, beating at low speed just until blended after each addition.
- ▢ — Stir in vanilla.
- ▢ — Spoon batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan!
- ▢ — Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a long thin chopstick inserted in center comes out clean.
- ▢ — Cool in pan 10 minutes.
- ▢ — Remove from pan and cool for 1 hour or until completely cool!
Peggy
October 1, 2024 10:44 amWhere are the sweet potatoes?!?