Chocolate Sweet Potato Cake Recipe

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This recipe was given to my mother in 1940. Mother had lost all of her recipes, collected during 7 years of marriage, in a house fire, so her friends gave her a recipe party. Each recipe was handwritten, and most merely listed the ingredients with no mention of how to put them together. Among them is this cake, which is one of our family's favorites. -Sally Green, Mobile, Alabama

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Chocolate Sweet Potato Cake Recipe
  • Prep: 10 min. Bake: 70 min. + cooling
  • Yield: 12-16 Servings
10 70 80

Ingredients

  • 2/3 cup butter, softened
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking cocoa
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon each ground cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cloves
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled, cooked, mashed and cooled
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups chopped pecans
  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • Confectioners' sugar, optional

Directions

  • In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and spices; gradually add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Beat in sweet potatoes and vanilla until blended. Stir in pecans and raisins.
  • Transfer to a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 350° for 70-80 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar if desired. Yield: 12-16 servings.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 slice) equals 378 calories, 20 g fat (6 g saturated fat), 75 mg cholesterol, 203 mg sodium, 47 g carbohydrate, 3 g fiber, 5 g protein.

Originally published as Chocolate Sweet Potato Cake in Reminisce September/October 2000, p49

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