Sweet Potato Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting.’

Sweet Potato Cake is moist with a luscious, homemade, creamy cinnamon cream cheese frosting. It requires only a few simple ingredients and tastes like it came out of a professional bakery. 

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Making your own cake at home from scratch is easy and I have quite a few other cake recipes you should try. A few favorites are Old Fashioned Applesauce Cake, Banana Cake with Homemade Brown Butter Frosting, and a classic Carrot Cake. 

Why This Recipe Works

Homemade Sweet potato cake is a decadent dessert that is simple enough for weekly dessert but fancy enough for a holiday dessert spread on Thanksgiving or Christmas. This moist cake has a similar texture to a spice cake and the dreamy frosting is very creamy.

Ingredients needed for this cake

• All purpose flour
• Baking powder and baking soda: Your leavening agents.
• Spices: Salt, cinnamon, ground ginger, nutmeg.
• Sugar: dark brown sugar and granulated sugar.
• Large eggs: A binding ingredient common in cakes.
• Oil: vegetable oil or canola oil.
• Sweet potatoes: Leftover sweet potatoes can be used.
• Vanilla extract
• Butter: room temperature 
• Cream cheese: room temperature to prevent any lumps.
• Cinnamon: ground cinnamon
• Powdered sugar: Also known as confectioner sugar.

How to make a Delicious Sweet Potato Cake

• Step 1: In a large bowl, mix the dry ingredients- flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. Whisk until combined.
• Step 2: In a separate mixing bowl, use a hand mixer to beat the sugars, eggs, vegetable oil, mashed sweet potatoes, and vanilla together until combined.

• Step 3: Pour the dry ingredients into the bowl with the wet ingredients and mix together. 
• Step 4: Pour batter in a cake pan that’s been sprayed with cooking spray. Bake cake. 

• Step 5: In a medium bowl add the butter, cream cheese, cinnamon, and vanilla. Using a hand mixer blend until creamy.
• Step 6: Add in the powdered sugar a little at a time until blended.

• Step 7: Once a toothpick can be inserted into the middle of the cake and comes out clean, the cake is done and should be removed to cool until it’s time to frost the cake.
• Step 8: Use an offset spatula to frost the cake. Slice, serve, and enjoy.

Recipe Tips

• If you don’t like the stringy fibers from the mashed sweet potatoes, you can pulse it a few times in the food processor to make a smooth sweet potato purée.
• If you have one, you can use a stand mixer to make the cake batter and the frosting instead of an electric mixer and a large mixing bowl.
• You can add chopped pecans, walnuts, or other nuts to the cake pieces when serving.
• The best way to serve this cake is slightly chilled or at room temperature.