Easy Sweet Potato Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe Homemade (2024)

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What is sweet potato cake made of? ›

for the cake: flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, butter, brown sugar, sweet potato puree, eggs, vanilla/almond extract, and buttermilk. brown butter glaze: powdered sugar, butter, milk, vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract. optional goodies: pecans, for topping and vanilla ice cream, for serving.

Crumbled Tea Biscuits drenched in a creamy rich chocolate sauce and then frozen and sliced. Dessert in 5 minutes. It's so good, you'll never let yourself, I mean your freezer, be without it.

Swedish Princess Cake (Prinsesstårta) is a classic Scandinavian torte with layers of sponge cake, raspberry jam, vanilla custard, and whipped cream. It is traditionally dome-shaped and covered with a layer of sweet marzipan tinted green. Princess Cake has been on my baking bucket list for ages.

Can I use this frosting for cake decorating and layer cakes? If you're making a simple 2 layer cake, then yes it can be used as a frosting for the inside and outside. However, as with most cream cheese frostings it will soften up slightly at room temperature making it less stable.

So does it need refrigeration? Food Network Kitchens: Yes, you should always refrigerate any cake or cupcake that has cream cheese frosting.

Mix 1 tablespoon (25 grams) of cornstarch into the frosting. If it is still too runny, add a little more. Continue to add cornstarch until you are happy with the texture. Avoid adding more than 1/2 cup (62.5 grams) of cornstarch per 8 oz (226 grams) of cream cheese.

Creamy ingredients like Nutella, cream cheese, marshmallow creme, peanut butter or another nut butter will give the store-bought frosting tons of flavor with some additional smoothness. Mix in 1 cup of cream cheese or 1/2 cup of marshmallow creme or nut butter per can of frosting for a creamy delight.

Cream cheese frosting, alone or on cake or cupcakes, can sit at a cool room temperature for up to 8 hours before it should be refrigerated. The frosting can be made and transferred to an airtight container and stored in the fridge for up to 3 days, or in the freezer for up to 1 month.

How to make cream cheese store-bought frosting taste better? ›

Add Ins. We also like to stir chopped chocolate, toffee bits, or butterscotch chips to the frosting before using it to decorate. They create a more dynamic texture and add a homemade quality.

Absolutely. Besides their health benefits, sweet potatoes are a great addition to any weight loss diet. First up, they're very high in fibre — especially soluble fibre. Soluble fibre is excellent because it slows down your digestion and helps you feel full, which can curb the urge to snack between meals.

The nutrition facts for raw and baked sweet potatoes can be vastly different. One cup of raw sweet potato may contain 114 calories, 26.8 grams of carbs and 5.6 g sugar, whereas one cup of baked sweet potato may contain 180 calories, 41.4 g carbs and 16.9 g sugar. That's a big increase in carbs and sugars.

You'll get a healthy dose of fiber in this sweet potato cake with the addition of sweet potatoes which helps keep digestion regular. Sweet potatoes also help feed healthy gut bacteria. They're also high in beta carotene, an antioxidant that the body converts to vitamin A once digested.

Peel and grate the sweet potatoes and mix with melted butter in a large bowl. In a medium bowl, beat eggs with sugar until well mixed. Pour over the sweet potato mixture, and stir in evaporated milk, whole milk, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, and vanilla extract.

In some states it's known as a 'potato scallop', in others it's a 'potato cake', and for years the debate has been bantered back and forward between protagonists. “It might be a 'scallop' of potato but let's not confuse it with a serve of scallops!

What I will comment on is that scallop is a better culinary description because it comes from the French word escaloper, meaning to cut in fine slices. A potato cake is not, in fact, a cake. It would be best described, however, as a potato fritter, as they do in South Australia.