Sweet Potato Cake with Honey Swiss Buttercream
2014-07-23 23:39:58
Serves 24
Ingredients
- 2 cups cake flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs, separated at room temperature
- 1¼ cups vegetable oil
- 2 cups mashed sweet potato
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Honey Swiss Buttercream, recipe follows
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line a 12x18-inch cake pan with parchment paper, and spray with nonstick baking spray with flour.
- In a large bowl, sift together cake flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt.
- In a separate bowl, add sugar, egg yolks, and oil; whisk until well combined. Add mashed sweet potato and vanilla to sugar mixture; whisk to combine. Add sugar mixture to flour mixture, and whisk until smooth.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, beat egg whites at high speed until stiff peaks form.
- Fold egg whites into cake batter in 3 additions. Pour into prepared pan, and bake until lightly browned and a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
- Top cake with Honey Swiss Buttercream and serve.
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Honey Swiss Buttercream
2014-07-24 00:36:39
Ingredients
- 1½ cups sugar
- 6 large egg whites, at room temperature
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 2 cups unsalted butter, softened
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Prepare a double-boiler.
- In the double boiler bowl, add sugar, egg whites, and honey; whisk gently to combine.
- Whisk mixture slowly but continuously over simmering water until a candy thermometer reads 140°. Remove from heat, and beat on high speed with an electric mixer until cool, about 15 minutes. The bowl should feel cool to the touch.
- Reduce speed to low, and add butter, 1 tablespoon at a time until combined, scraping down the sides of bowl with a rubber spatula as needed. Increase speed to medium, and beat until a smooth buttercream forms, scraping down the sides of bowl with a rubber spatula as needed, about 15 minutes.
- Add salt and vanilla; mix until combined. Use immediately.
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