Sweet Potato Pound Cake

After a delay of 2 weeks, I finally got down to baking my sweet potato pound cake.  And it is a resounding success!  My family enjoyed it and my collegues/ friends had no major complaints.  Here's  the recipe I got from "All Cakes Considered" and I tweaked as usual on the butter/ sugar amount, substituted the milk and pecan nuts.

Sweet Potato Pound Cake
4 medium sweet potatoes (baked for 75mins, centre rack at 160 deg C, cooled, scraped and mashed)
224g (1 block) unsalted SCS butter

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

4 large eggs

31/2 cups plain flour

2 tsp double action bakng powder

1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup rice milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp maple syrup

1 peeled and diced Granny Smith green apple

For the Topping

1 tbsp unsalted butter, cut into pats

1 tbsp brown sugar

3/4 cup walnuts

1.  Position rack at middle of oven and preheat at 160 deg C.  Line the bottom of 10-cup tube pan with parchment paper and spread the pan with oil and cover finely with plain flour.  Remember to remove excess flour.

2.  Cream butter at medium speed.

3.  Combine the 2 sugars and add to the creamed butter, 1/2 cup at a time, for 1 minute each round.

4.  Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating at medium speed for 1 minute each time.

5.  Reduce the speed to low and add mashed potatoes, 1/2 cup at a time.

6.  In a separate bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt.

7. Similarly, mix together rice milk, vanilla and maple syrup.

8.  Alternate the mixing of 1/2 cup of flour mixture with 1/2 of the milk mixture. Beat well till properly mixed for every addition. 

9.  Scrap down with spatula and blend for 2 minutes till the batter is well mixed.

10.  Lower speed to the lowest and add in the green apples.  Stop once well mixed.

11.  Pour into prepared pan and smooth out batter with spatula.

12.  Sprinkle the topping (blended into crumbs using wooden spoon).  Bake till set for 75 minutes.

Batter Just Before Baking

Cake Done, Cut Up and Ready for Eating! Yum!