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Recipe: Sweet Potato & Vanilla Cake - Recette: Gâteau à la Patate Douce et à la Vanille

Submitted by Nathalie on Thursday, 22 January 20097 Comments

Today I’ve decided to make a dessert with my last sweet potato, as part of our week dedicated to this vegetable. What I like about sweet potatoes is that you can either cook savoury dishes or desserts, depending on what you prefer or want to eat. It’s been a few days since I last baked a cake so let’s go for a Sweet Potato Cake with Vanilla!

Sweet potato & vanilla cake

Serves 4-6 - Ready in 1h30

Ingredients

For the cake:

  • 225g mashed cooked sweet potatoes (1 small sweet potato)
  • 150g plain flour
  • 110g butter
  • 100g dark brown sugar
  • 50ml yogurt
  • 1 egg
  • 1 vanilla pod (alternatively you can use vanilla extract but the taste won’t be quite the same)
  • 1/2tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1tsp baking powder
  • 1 pinch of salt

For the icing:

  • 100g icing sugar
  • 3tbsp freshly made orange juice

Preparation

  • Preheat the oven to 180°C and butter a cake pan (or use a silicon pan).
  • Cream the softened butter with the vanilla seeds scraped out of the pod, sugar, ground nutmeg and salt.
  • Add in the egg, slightly beaten.
  • Mix well until well blended.
  • Add the mashed sweet potatoes and yogurt.
  • Combine the baking powder and flour and add to the mixture. Mix well.
  • Pour the mixture into the pan.
  • Bake for 30 to 35 minutes.
  • Leave to cool.
  • To make the icing, mix the icing sugar with the orange juice.
  • When the cake is cool, spread the icing on top.

Bon Appetit!

I’m eating it while writing this article and it’s just so good! Sweet but not too sweet, despite the icing, moist and with a good flavour of vanilla. Just as I like cakes! Trust me, you should definitely try this recipe.

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Gâteau à la Patate Douce et à la Vanille

Pour 4-6 personnes - Prêt en 1h30.

Ingrédients

Pour le gâteau :

  • 225g de patate douce cuite en purée (soit une petite patate douce)
  • 150g de farine
  • 110g de beurre
  • 100g de sucre roux
  • 50ml de yaourt nature ou fromage blanc
  • 1 oeuf
  • 1 gousse de vanille (ou de l’extrait de vanille mais le goût ne sera pas tout à fait pareil)
  • 1/2cc de muscade
  • 1cc de levure chimique
  • 1 pincée de sel

Pour le glaçage :

  • 100g de sucre glace
  • 3cs de jus d’orange fraichement pressé

Préparation

  • Préchauffer le four à 180°C et beurrez un moule à cake (ou utilisez un moule en silicone).
  • Battez le beurre jusqu’à ce qu’il ait une consistance crémeuse, avec les graines de la gousse de vanille, le sucre, la muscade et la pincée de sel.
  • Ajoutez l’oeuf battu. Mélangez bien.
  • Ajoutez la patate douce en purée et le yaourt.
  • Mélangez la levure dans la farine et ajoutez-les progressivement à la préparation. Mélangez jusqu’à obtenir une pâte relativement homogène.
  • Versez la préparation dans le moule à cake.
  • Faites cuire 30-35 minutes. Piquez le gâteau avec un couteau. Si la pointe ressort sèche, votre cake est cuit.
  • Laisser refroidir.
  • Pour faire le glaçage, mélangez le sucre glace et le jus d’orange.
  • Lorsque le gâteau est refroidi, étalez le glaçage en une fine couche.

Bon Appétit !

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7 Comments »

  • ANN says:

    merci cher chef
    for all im here and i say you have more and more loving recipe
    here my thanks and my love
    ann from israel at nazareth.

  • Nathalie says:

    @Ann: Thank you very much for these sweet words. I’m happy you like the recipes and I’ll do my best to share new lovely dishes every day.

  • ANN says:

    hi
    you are so sweet like your recipe .
    meci pour le reponse,
    now i have to ask you about thr patate i see coating of patate on - before the icing. my question if i have to kape-lay - lettly patate sweet! and about your loing icing - if i have to make just with a sugar (glace) and orange juice.
    here my thanksful for all,
    i’m for you my speciality as food maroccan i m opened to share weith my pleasure ann

  • Lori says:

    This is a great sounding recipe. I just love sweet potatoes. I have recently been posting a few sweet potato recipes.

  • Melissa says:

    This looks so moist and scrumptious! I am definitely going to try it. :)

  • dawn says:

    wonderful! I love the many uses for sweet potato, I’ve done afew things with it.
    I’ll have to give this a try.

  • ingrid says:

    Yum, lets go for it! Looks wonderful!
    ~ingrid

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