Best Sweet Potato Cake With Orange Glaze Recipes

SWEET POTATO POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and nutmeg; add to creamed mixture alternately with sweet potatoes. Beat just until combined (batter will be stiff). , Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 350° for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely., For glaze, in a small bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, orange zest and enough juice to achieve desired consistency. Drizzle over cake.

SWEET POTATO CAKE WITH ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour a 10-in tube pan with removable bottom. Tap out excess flour.
• Place pecan halves on bottom of pan in even layer.
• Using colander, drain sweet potatoes well.
• In a bowl, mash potatoes until smooth.
• In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, ginger and salt.
• In large bowl, with electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter and sugars 2 minutes, until fluffy. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in buttermilk, vanilla and mashed potatoes.
• With mixer on low speed, gradually add flour mixture, beat on medium speed until well blended. Spoon batter into prepared pan; spread evenly. Bake 60 to 65 minutes or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool on rack 15 minutes. Run knife around edges; remove pan sides. Cool completely.
• Run long, sharp knife carefully under bottom of cake between pan and pecans. Turn cake out onto cake plate, pecan side up.
• Glaze: In small saucepan, over high heat, combine sugar and orange juice. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and boil until thick and syrupy, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in zest.
• Brush over pecans, letting some glaze run down sides of cake.

SWEET POTATO POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Sift together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg and salt. Set aside.
• In large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add mashed sweet potatoes and vanilla. Beat until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time (the batter will look curdled). Add flour mixture to potato mixture. Beat on low until combined.
• Pour batter into 10 inch tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean. Cool cake for 20 minutes in the pan, then invert onto serving plate.
• To make the glaze: in a small bowl, combine confectioners sugar with 3 to 5 teaspoons orange juice to achieve drizzling consistency. Spoon over warm cake and sprinkle with orange zest if desired.

ORANGE SWEET POTATO POUND CAKE W/ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. DO NOT OPEN OVEN DOOR DURING FIRST HOUR OF BAKING. These are the spices, butter, eggs and sugars & orange needed to make the cake.
• 2. Additional extract ingredients & nuts used for the cake. I also used Buttermilk baking soda and self rising white lily flour.
• 3. I baked the sweet potatoes in the oven then whipped them till smooth and stored them in the fridge in a zip lock bag. I used Tropicana Orange juice.
• 4. Add flour to a sifter, and add in the salt, spices & baking soda and sift to blend together.
• 5. Cream butter till soft and creamy, then gradually add in both sugars, beating well after each addition is added. Beat until creamy and smooth and no granules are visible, about 10 minutes.
• 6. Add in the eggs one at a time. Then slowly add in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk.
• 7. In a medium size bowl add the beaten sweet potatoes along with the zest from one orange, and the orange juice, then beat till thoroughly blended together, then add to cake batter. Then add in the chopped nuts, and beat till blended.
• 8. Spray a 16 cup Bundt pan liberally with Bakers Joy, and then pour cake batter into pan, Garnish top with pecan halves if desired, and bake in preheated 325 degree F. oven for 90 minutes or until long wooden skewer inserted into center of cake comes out clean. PLEASE NOTE IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A 16 CUP BUNDT PAN, USE 2 SMALLER PANS. The pan in the picture is a 12 cup, but I added the remaining batter to a 3 cup Bundt pan. Did not realize the amount of batter I had until AFTER I had added it to the pan. REMEMBER TO LEAVE ROOM IN PAN FOR CAKE TO RISE AT LEAST 2 INCHES.
• 9. For the glaze add the softened butter to a medium size bowl, along with the orange extract, and about 2 tablespoons of the orange juice, then beat till glaze is blended together. Add additional orange juice as needed till desired spreading consistency is reached. Drizzle onto cooled cake as desired, and top with additional pecan halves if desired. Serve and enjoy.
• 10. HERE IS THE SMALLER CAKE, I GAVE IT TO MY NEIGHBOR, ALONG WITH a pecan pie, Homemade dinner Rolls, & a Sweet Potato Pie.
• 11. Here is a platter of the sliced cake that I gave to another neighbor. They really loved it.

SWEET POTATO & ORANGE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• FOR THE CAKE: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, then grease & flour a 10-inch Bundt pan.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream butter & sugar until light & fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Beat in the vanilla.
• In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt & nutmeg, then add this flour mixture to the butter mixture, a cup at a time, & alternating the flour mixture additions with a cup of sweet potato additions. BEFORE COMPLETELY MIXED, add the tablespoon of orange zest, & mix just until combined in a stiff batter.
• Pour batter into the prepared pan & bake 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
• Remove from the oven & cool for 10 minutes before removing cake from the pan & placing the cake on a wire rack to cool completely.
• FOR THE GLAZE: In a small bowl, combine powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon of orange zest & enough juice to achieve an acceptable consistency.
• Drizzle over the cooled cake.

ORANGE-GLAZED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• In a large saucepan over medium heat, cook sweet potatoes in boiling water until tender but still hold their shape, about 5 minutes; drain. Arrange in a buttered 2-qt. baking dish so slices overlap slightly. , In a saucepan, combine juice, butter, sugar, syrup, zest and spices; bring to a boil over high heat, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to medium; cook until thickened, about 5 minutes. Drizzle over potatoes., In a small bowl, combine oats, sugar and cinnamon. Cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in pecans. Sprinkle over potatoes. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 30 minutes.

WORLD'S BEST SWEET POTATO POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt or tube pan.
• Cream butter and Neufchatel cream cheese in a stand mixer until creamy. Add both types of sugar and continue to beat until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in sweet potato puree until well incorporated.
• Combine cake flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and salt in a bowl. Slowly add flour mixture to sweet potato mixture; mix until well combined. Beat in vanilla extract. Fill batter into prepared baking pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 75 to 85 minutes. Let cool in pan for 20 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

SWEET-POTATO LAYER CAKE WITH ORANGE-CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• For cake:
• Preheat oven to 400°F. Pierce potatoes with fork; place on small baking sheet. Roast potatoes until soft, about 1 hour. Cool, peel, and mash potatoes. Measure 2 cups mashed potatoes; cool to lukewarm (reserve any remaining potatoes for another use). Reduce oven temperature to 350°F.
• Butter and flour two 9-inch-diameter cake pans with 2-inch-high sides; line pans with parchment. Sift flour and next 6 ingredients into medium bowl. Combine oil, 1 cup sugar, and brown sugar in large bowl; whisk until smooth. Whisk in eggs 1 at a time, then mashed sweet potatoes. Whisk in flour mixture in 3 additions. Stir in 2/3 cup walnuts and 2/3 cup cranberries. Divide batter between prepared pans. Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Cool cakes completely in pans on racks.
• For frosting:
• Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese and butter in large bowl until fluffy. Beat in powdered sugar, scraping down bowl often. Beat in orange juice concentrate and vanilla.
• Cut around pan sides; turn out cakes. Peel off parchment. Place 1 cake layer, flat side up, on platter. Spread 3/4 cup frosting over. Top with second cake layer, flat side down. Spread remaining frosting over top and sides of cake. Combine orange peel, 3 tablespoons sugar, remaining 1/4 cup walnuts, and 1/4 cup cranberries in small bowl. Stir to coat with sugar. Transfer to sieve; sift off excess sugar. Sprinkle fruit and nut mixture decoratively atop cake. Chill until frosting sets, at least 2 hours. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover with cake dome; keep chilled. Let stand at room temperature 1 hour before serving.)