Southern-style sweet potato pound cake gets a jumpstart from a convenience mix.
More About This Recipe
- Next time you’re making sweet potatoes for dinner, do yourself a favor and throw in an extra potato to roast so you can make this moist and delicious sweet potato pound cake. With one cup of mashed sweet potatoes, you can whip up this cake using a box of Betty Crocker pound cake mix, milk, nutmeg, eggs and butter. It’s wonderful topped simply with Betty Crocker Rich & Creamy cream cheese frosting but if you’re feeling fancy, a handful of chopped nuts, candied fruit or coconut will take this cake over the top. Give it a try sometime when you need a little something sweet and use it as an opportunity to try out some of these tips and tricks for baking cake. Once you’ve mastered this recipe, try another of Betty’s best pound cakes.
Quick and Easy Sweet Potato Pound Cake
- Prep Time 20 min
- Total 2 hr 20 min
- Servings 12
- Ingredients 6
Ingredients
- 1 box (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Pound Cake Mix
- 1 cup mashed cooked sweet potatoes
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 3 eggs
- 1 tub (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 10-inch angel food (tube) cake pan with shortening; lightly flour.
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Step2In large bowl, beat cake mix, sweet potatoes, milk, nutmeg and eggs with electric mixer on low speed 1 minute, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on medium speed 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Spread in pan.
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Step3Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean and cake is golden brown. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Frost cake with frosting.
Nutrition
385
Calories
12g
Total Fat
5g
Protein
64g
Total Carbohydrate
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 385
- Calories from Fat
- 110
- Total Fat
- 12g
- 0%
- Saturated Fat
- 4g
- 0%
- Cholesterol
- 60mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 390mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 64g
- 0%
- Dietary Fiber
- 1g
- 0%
- Protein
- 5g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 70%
- 70%
- Vitamin C
- 4%
- 4%
- Calcium
- 8%
- 8%
- Iron
- 6%
- 6%
Exchanges:
2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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