CRANBERRY SWEET POTATO SPICE CAKE

Cranberry Sweet Potato Spice Cake image

There is more to sweet potatoes than toasted marshmallows! This cake has amazing flavor and options are endless to change up the recipe. For frosting, use your favorite, such as cream cheese, butter cream, or maple cream.

Provided by Pamela J Hagen-French

Categories Desserts Cakes Spice Cake Recipes

Time 1h50m

Yield 16

Number Of Ingredients 14

Ingredients

3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
½ teaspoon salt
1 ½ cups butter
1 ½ cups white sugar
3 eggs
½ cup molasses
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 cups cooked mashed sweet potatoes
1 ½ cups sweetened dried cranberries (such as Craisins®)
1 cup chopped walnuts

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans.
Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt together in a bowl.
Beat butter and sugar together in a separate large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat one egg at a time into the butter mixture; add molasses and vanilla extract with last egg. Add sweet potatoes, cranberries, and walnuts; mix until batter is thoroughly combined. Gradually beat flour mixture into batter until thoroughly combined. Pour batter into prepared baking pans.
Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before turning out onto wire rack to cool completely.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 493.2 calories, Carbohydrate 66.5 g, Cholesterol 80.6 mg, Fat 23.6 g, Fiber 2.7 g, Protein 5.9 g, SaturatedFat 11.8 g, Sodium 467.1 mg, Sugar 36.4 g