World's Best Sweet Potato Pound Cake
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Cooking:
1 hour
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Servings per container:
16
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Ingredients for - World's Best Sweet Potato Pound Cake

1. Unsalted butter, softened, plus additional for greasing bundt pan - ½ cup
2. Neufchatel cheese, softened - 1 (8 ounce) package
3. Brown sugar - 1 ½ cups
4. Sugar - 1 ½ cups
5. Eggs, at room temperature - 4
6. Sweet potatoes, baked, cooled, and pureed - 2 ½ cups
7. Cake flour, plus more for dusting - 3 cups
8. Baking powder - 2 teaspoons
9. Baking soda - 1 teaspoon
10. Cinnamon - 1 teaspoon
11. Ground nutmeg - ½ teaspoon
12. Ground ginger - ¼ teaspoon
13. Salt - ¼ teaspoon
14. Vanilla extract - 2 teaspoons

How to cook deliciously - World's Best Sweet Potato Pound Cake

1. Stage

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt or tube pan.

2. Stage

Cream butter and Neufchatel cream cheese in a stand mixer until creamy. Add both types of sugar and continue to beat until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in sweet potato puree until well incorporated.

3. Stage

Combine cake flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and salt in a bowl. Slowly add flour mixture to sweet potato mixture; mix until well combined. Beat in vanilla extract. Fill batter into prepared baking pan.

4. Stage

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 75 to 85 minutes. Let cool in pan for 20 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.