Sweet Potato Cake Recipe
Tender and moist Sweet Potato Cake Recipe with thick chocolate swirl, slathered with chocolate glaze to finish things off!
Prep Time20 minutes mins
Cook Time50 minutes mins
Total Time1 hour hr 10 minutes mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 12 Medium thick Slices
Calories: 266kcal
- ¾ cup Brown Sugar
- ½ cup Granulated Sugar
- ⅓ cup Clarified Butter/ Flavorless Oil
- 3 tablespoon Greek yogurt
- 2 ½ tablespoon Buttermilk
- 2 large Eggs
- 1 ¼ cups Sweet Potato puree
- 2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 cups All purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- ¾ teaspoon Baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon Baking soda
- 2 teaspoon Spice Blend Ginger+cloves (1 teaspoon each)
- 2 teaspoon Cinnamon
Chocolate Swirl
- 2 ½ tablespoon Cocoa powder (natural, unsweetened)
- 1 tablespoon Buttermilk (or milk)
Chocolate Glaze
- ½ cup Chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoon Butter (unsalted)
- 2 teaspoon light Corn Syrup
- 2 teaspoon Milk
Preheat oven to 425 deg F and grease or spray a 6 inches or 7 inches bundt pan with butter/oil spray and set it aside.
In a large bowl, combine both sugars, oil, yogurt, and buttermilk until blended. Add in eggs next and mix well using a beater or with hands. Now stir in vanilla, cinnamon and sweet potato puree.
Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on wet ingredients and fold till combined. Take a cup of batter out in a bowl. Mix cocoa and buttermilk in and fold in to form chocolate batter.
Pour sweet potato batter in the pre-prepared bundt pan.
Next pour half of chocolate batter in. 3rd layer will be sweet potato batter again.
Layer with the remaining chocolate batter next. And finish off with sweet potato batter. Don't be afraid to fill your bundt pan to the top. The initial high temp. will not let the batter to overflow. Bake for 45-55 mins or until the cake passes the toothpick test.
Allow to cool down for 15 mins in the pan. Then invert on a wire stand to cool down further. Top with chocolate glaze on completely cooled cake!
Chocolate Glaze
Place choc chips, butter, corn syrup and milk in a bowl and microwave in 30 sec increments till chocolate melts, smoothens and turns glossy. Stir in between.
Storage info:
Sweet Potato Bundt Cake can be stored covered tightly at room temp up to 2 days. Keep in fridge for longer storage. Up to 5 days.
Bundt cake can be frozen for up to 2 months. Thaw before enjoying. Or warm up in microwave.
Sweet Potato Cake Substitutions:
Sweet Potatoes can be substituted with canned/fresh pumpkin puree in equal amount.
Serving: 1Slice | Calories: 266kcal | Carbohydrates: 51g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 5g | Sodium: 183mg | Sugar: 29g