BABY SWEET POTATO CAKES WITH PECANS AND STICKY CARAMEL SAUCE
Make and share this Baby Sweet Potato Cakes With Pecans and Sticky Caramel Sauce recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Bev I Am
Categories Dessert
Time 40m
Yield 12 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- Beat butter and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth.
- Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition.
- Combine flour and baking soda.
- Gradually add half of flour mixture to butter mixture, beating at low speed until blended, and stopping to scrape bottom and down sides of bowl.
- Add remaining half of flour mixture, and beat until blended.
- Add vanilla and next 5 ingredients, beating at medium speed until smooth.
- Spoon batter into 12 muffin cups coated with cooking spray, filling two-thirds full.
- 3. Bake at 350° for 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on a wire rack 5 minutes.
- Remove warm cakes from pan, and sprinkle with toasted pecans.
- Top each cake with 2 1/2 Tbsp Caramel-Pecan Sauce (*recipe follows).
- Serve with vanilla ice cream or ice-cold heavy cream, if desired.
- *Caramel-Pecan Sauce:.
- Cook butter and sugar in a medium nonstick skillet over medium heat 2 to 3 minutes or until butter melts and sugar dissolves.
- Whisk in heavy cream and coffee granules. Bring mixture to a light boil, stirring constantly.
- Turn off heat, and let stand on cooktop until slightly cool, stirring often. Makes 2 cups.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 446.3, Fat 26.9, SaturatedFat 14.9, Cholesterol 99.1, Sodium 387.2, Carbohydrate 49, Fiber 1.9, Sugar 32.1, Protein 4.2
BABY SWEET POTATO CAKES
This delicious recipe is from 2006 Southern Living.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cake Recipes
Yield Makes 12 cakes
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a standard 12-cup muffin pan with nonstick cooking spray; set aside.
- Beat butter and sugar on medium speed in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat to combine.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour and baking soda. Gradually add half the flour mixture to the butter mixture, beating on low speed until blended, scraping the bottom and down sides of bowl with a rubber spatula, as needed. Add remaining flour mixture, and beat until blended. Add vanilla, salt, ginger, cinnamon, sweet potatoes, and buttermilk. Beat on medium speed until smooth.
- Spoon batter into prepared muffin pan. Each cup should be about two-thirds full. Bake until a wooden toothpick inserted into the center of each cake comes out clean, about 15 minutes. Transfer pan to wire rack to cool for 5 minutes. Remove warm cakes from pan, and sprinkle with toasted pecans. Top each cake with 2 1/2 tablespoon caramel-pecan sauce. Serve with vanilla ice cream, if desired.
BABY SWEET POTATO CAKES
From a cookbook.
Provided by Chrystal Cackler @journeyrock92
Categories Cakes
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- In a bowl, stir together raisins and rum; set aside and let stand 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly grease 3 12 cup bundt brownie pans with cooking spray.
- Meanwhile, beat eggs and sugar at high speed with an electric mixer 2-4 minutes or until thick and pale. Add oil and vanilla, beating at low speed just until blended. Add sweet potato puree, beating just until blended and stopping to scrape down sides as needed.
- Sift together flour and next 5 ingredients; add to egg mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Drain raisins, reserving rum. Fold raisins into batter. Spoon batter into pans, filling each three-fourths full.
- Bake at 350F for 14-16 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on lightly greased wire racks 5 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks.
- Bring brown sugar and next 2 ingredients to a boil in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Boil, stirring constantly, 3 minutes or until mixture begins to thicken to a syrup-like consistency. Remove from heat; stir in reserved rum.
- Pierce tops of cakes multiple times using a wooden pick. Dip top halves of cakes in glaze; hold 1-2 seconds. Place, glazed sides up, on lightly greased wire racks. Sprinkle each cake with pecans.
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