Grammy's Kitchen · Pound Cake · Sweet Potato Pound Cake
One of 63 pound cake recipes we measured
1 cooks on www.favfamilyrecipes.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 63.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 79% | 94% |
| total sugar | 183% | 167% |
| egg | 56% | 83% |
| leavener | 3% | 1% |
| salt | 0% | 1% |
| liquid | 8% | 34% |
| dairy | 8% | 57% |
| vegetables and beans | 104% | 0% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 227 g | 1 cup butter (softened) |
| 400 g | 2 cups sugar |
| 200 g | 4 eggs |
| 375 g | 2 1/2 cups sweet potatoes (mashed) |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon vanilla |
| 360 g | 3 cups flour |
| 8 g | 2 teaspoons baking powder |
| 5 g | 1 teaspoon baking soda |
| 2 g | 1/4 teaspoon salt |
| 3 g | 1 teaspoon cinnamon |
| 1 g | 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg |
| 1/2 cup coconut | |
| 200 g | 1 cup powdered sugar |
| 57 g | 4 tablespoons melted butter |
| 60 g | 3 tablespoons maple syrup |
| 30 g | 2 tablespoons heavy cream |
| 54 g | 1/2 cup chopped pecans (garnish) |
Method: 8 steps, published by www.favfamilyrecipes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“It is wonderful and I will bake this/gift this all year. Thank you.” — a cook, 5.0★