Sweet Potato Cinnamon Roll Cake

Lexi, age 11, drew the responsibility for making the dessert for our Family Potluck Extravaganza meal. We had sweet potatoes that needed to be used up. I've made sweet potato muffins and bread before and loved them, so I was excited to try them in cake.  It really doesn't taste like sweet potatoes so even if you don't like them you should give this a try anyway. I personally love sweet potatoes. I don't even need to put any sugar or butter, or heaven forbid, marshmallows on them to enjoy them! But maybe I'm weird that way! I think next time though I will wait for the cake to cool and then apply a regular frosting to it instead of using the glaze. I've left the recipe here with the glaze option, but I felt like it made the cake a little soggy. It still tastes really good, but I think I would like it better with regular frosting.

Cake
Ingredients:
3 cups flour
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
4 tsp baking powder
2 cups cooked sweet potatoes
11/2 cups milk
2 eggs, beaten
2 tsps vanilla
1/2 cup butter, melted

Topping:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 TBSP flour
1/2 TBSP cinnamon
Butterscotch or chocolate chips
 
Glaze
2 cups powdered sugar
5 TBSP milk
1 tsp vanilla


Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a 13x9 inch baking pan.

In a large bowl combine flour,sugar,salt, and baking powder.  Stir with a fork to combine.  In another large bowl beat sweet potatoes and milk until smooth (we used a food processor which worked really well.)  Add beaten eggs, and vanilla, beat until combined.  Slowly add flour to sweet potato mixture, mixing until just incorporated.  Slowly stir the melted butter into the batter until well combined.  Pour batter into prepared pan.  Make topping.

Topping directions:
Mix all the topping ingredients together until well combined.  Drop evenly over the batter.  Scatter butterscotch or chocolate chips on top. Bake cake for 30- 35 minutes.   After cake is baked, cool slightly while making the glaze.

Glaze directions:
Combine glaze ingredients mix until smooth.  Glaze cake while still warm.

Original recipe can be found Here.