Sweet Potato Cake

Sweet Potato Cake is dense and heavy but full of flavor for an extremely moist layer cake that's topped with luscious buttercream and candied pecans.

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This cake is dense and heavy but full of flavor and extremely moist. I made my own sweet potato puree.

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INGREDIENTS FOR Sweet Potato Cake

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HOW TO MAKE SWEET POTATO CAKE

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Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook, swirling occasionally until the butter turns bubbly and brown. Remove from heat and let cool.

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Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a large bowl.

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In the bowl of your stand mixer with the paddle attachment, combine browned butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla bean paste.

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Add in the dry ingredients in two batches. Add the sweet potato puree and mix well.

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Sweet Potato Cake