Lovely and Moist Sweet Potato Pound Cake
- 1 Sweet potato
- 80 grams Unsalted butter
- 2 Egg yolk
- 50 grams Caster sugar
- 2 Egg white
- 20 grams Granulated sugar
- 100 grams Cake flour
- 2 grams Cinnamon powder
- 20 grams Condensed Milk
- 10 grams Honey
- 50 ml Heavy cream
- Wash the sweet potato thoroughly and peel the potato partially, as shown in the picture.
- Cut off both ends, wrap with plastic wrap, and microwave until softened enough to mix and mash.
- Separate the egg whites and yolks.
- You'll make a meringue with the whites, so keep in the refrigerator until use.
- Bring the butter to room temperature.
- Sift together the cake flour and cinnamon.
- Preheat the oven to 180C.
- Mash and stir the softened sweet potato to your desired texture.
- Add the heavy cream, condensed milk, and honey.
- Mash it all together.
- Using a wooden spatula, mix the softened butter until fluffy.
- When it becomes white and fluffy, add the caster sugar and mix with a hand mixer or whisk.
- Keep mixing until the texture of the sugar becomes fluffy and no longer coarse.
- Add the beaten room temperature egg yolk a little at a time and mix with each addition.
- Add the mixture from Step 4 to the bowl from Step 5 and combine with a spatula.
- Make the meringue.
- Add a pinch of salt (not listed) into the chilled egg whites.
- Beat with a hand mixer.
- Mix in the sugar a little at a time until firm peaks form.
- Divide the meringue in half and mix one half at a time into Step 6.
- Lightly oil the pan and line with parchment paper.
- When the meringue is completely mixed into the batter, add the ingredients a little at a time and mix until thoroughly combined.
- Once mixed, pour into the pan.
- Create a long well in the center.
- Bake at 180C for 50~55 minutes.
- It has a lot of moisture, so it might not look done, but if you stick a toothpick or skewer in the middle and it comes out clean, it's ready.
- It's kind of heavy, so it's like eating a Japanese sweet
sweet potato, butter, egg yolk, sugar, egg, sugar, flour, cinnamon powder, milk, honey, cream
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/147871-lovely-and-moist-%E2%99%AA-sweet-potato-pound-cake (may not work)