This moist and decadent candy potato pound cake has a gentle, tremendous crumb and wonderful taste from cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and candy potato puree. It’s the good spice cake for fall and winter celebrations!
The way to Make Candy Potato Pound Cake
You’ll find the full, printable cake recipe on the backside of this submit. Here’s a fast have a look at our steps!
- Preheat oven to 325℉ and grease and flour massive bundt pan. (This recipe makes about 8.5 cups of batter.)
- Sprinkle ½ cup of chopped pecans into the ready bundt pan.
- Dry Elements: In a separate bowl whisk the all objective flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and salt to mix, put aside for later.
- Subsequent, cream the butter in your mixer till easy. Step by step add the white and brown sugar and blend on medium velocity till gentle and fluffy (3-5 minutes).
- Add the eggs one after the other, mixing after every till the yolks have blended into the batter.
- Moist Elements: In one other bowl, stir collectively the candy potato puree, ¼ cup milk, and vanilla extract.
- With the mixer on low velocity, add the flour combination alternately with the Candy Potato Combination to the butter, sugar, & egg combination. Start and finish with the dry components. We add the dry combination 3 times and the candy potato combination twice.
- Combine till simply blended after the final addition.
- Scoop the cake batter into the bundt pan, masking the chopped pecans.
- Bake at 325 levels for 1 hour and 10 minutes or till a toothpick will be inserted and eliminated with with no crumbs or just some moist crumbs hooked up. Baking occasions might fluctuate! Peek in as the tip time approaches and modify time as wanted.
- Permit to chill within the pan on a wire rack for about ten minutes earlier than turning the cake out.
Here is a have a look at our freshly baked cake, simply after turning it out onto the pedestal. I really like the look of the crushed pecans. You could possibly benefit from the cake simply as it’s, or if you would like, you may add a easy caramel glaze! We determined so as to add a glaze this time.
Simple Caramel Glaze
As soon as the cake cools, you may add a caramel glaze if you would like. This can be a mixture of butter, heavy cream, brown sugar, a pinch of salt and a little bit of vanilla extract. Discover all the steps and ingredient quantities within the recipe card beneath.
The combination is delivered to a boil in a saucepan, then cooled to a simmer for about six minutes on the stovetop. The caramel could be very skinny whereas scorching, however thickens as much as a greater consistency for glazing because it cools. To convey it to a cooler temperature extra shortly, you may chill it or pour it into a protracted baking dish.
*I may have waited a bit longer earlier than including my caramel glaze to the cake however I used to be impatient- for this reason it’s extra clear. Nonetheless simply as scrumptious although!
Recipe FAQs
Extra Spice Desserts
Along with different candy potato muffins (Like our layered candy potato cake and candy potato bundt cake), we’ve got many extra spice muffins to share with you!
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To be sprinkled within the Ready Ban earlier than including the Batter
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Preheat oven to 325 ℉. Grease and flour a big bundt pan (This recipe makes 8.5 cups of batter)
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Sprinkle ½ cup of chopped pecans into the ready bundt pan.
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In a separate bowl whisk the flour, baking powder, salt, and spices to mix. Put aside for later.
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Cream the butter with the paddle attachment in your mixer till easy. Step by step add the sugar and blend on medium velocity till gentle and fluffy 3 to five minutes.
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Add the eggs one after the other mixing after every to include.
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In one other bowl, stir collectively the candy potato puree, ¼ cup milk, and vanilla extract.
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With the mixer on low velocity, add the flour combination alternately with the Candy Potato Combination to the butter, sugar, & egg combination. Start and finish with the dry components. We add the dry combination 3 times and the candy potato combination twice.
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Combine till simply blended after the final addition.
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Scoop the batter into the pan, on high of the chopped pecans.
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Bake at 325 levels F for 1 hour and 10 minutes or till a toothpick will be inserted and eliminated with with no crumbs or just some moist crumbs hooked up. Baking occasions might fluctuate! Peek in as the tip time approaches and modify time as wanted.
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This makes roughly 8.5 cups of batter.
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Permit to chill within the pan on a wire rack for about 10 minutes earlier than turning the cake out.
For the Caramel Glaze
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Utilizing a medium dimension saucepan (deep sufficient to forestall boil over) soften the butter over medium warmth.
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Add the brown sugar and the remaining components and warmth on medium excessive warmth.Stir to mix, attempt to preserve combination off the perimeters of the pan. As soon as the combination begins to boil, cut back the warmth to low.
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Simmer for six minutes, checking usually to make it possible for it’s not going to boil over. It ought to nonetheless be effervescent. After 6 minutes, take away from warmth.
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Remember that the caramel with thicken up a bit because it cools. You possibly can pour it into a protracted glass casserole dish if you need it to chill extra shortly. We frequently refrigerate to chill it off as nicely. Makes about 1 cup caramel sauce. It may be stored within the fridge in an hermetic container as much as 2 weeks.
Adorning the Cake
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We utilized the caramel drip to the cooled cake utilizing a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away. You could possibly additionally use a ziplock bag with a small little bit of the nook snipped away, or you may spoon the caramel over the cake.
Cake recipe makes roughly 8-8.5 cups of batter
