This easy sweet potato cake recipe from scratch uses fresh sweet potatoes which is added to a fine chocolate cake recipe. You can cook sweet potatoes on stove top or instant pot until they are soft or you can roast them in the oven or air fryer and then mash it to use in this recipe. You may also use leftover mashed sweet potatoes (plain mashed sweet potatoes without any additional seasonings or toppings) to use in this recipe.
Sweet potatoes can be easily added to cakes and the addition of these healthy vegetables make the cake more nutritious. Even kids who don't like sweet potatoes will love this sweet potato chocolate cake. I guess it is because of the delicious chocolate flavor, but still it has some veggies in it. You can also add delicious and easy chocolate cream cheese frosting or any frosting of your choice if you like! Also try this other homemade sweet potato cake with cream cheese frosting if you want vanilla flavored sweet potato cake.
When I thought about baking a cake for an occasion, I suddenly thought about the sweet potatoes in my fridge, and I decided I want a sweet potato flavored cake. I was not sure how a sweet potato cake would turn out, so I decided to go for a chocolate cake with sweet potatoes, because I was almost sure the chocolate would make the cake really delicious even if the sweet potatoes goes wrong.
The sweet potato chocolate cake was sweet and delicious and even my picky eaters loved it, so go ahead and try it if you want a delicious chocolate cake with some healthy vegetables in it!
how to cook sweet potato chocolate cake at home?
To make sweet potato chocolate cake, we use the following ingredients.
ingredients used to make sweet potato chocolate cake
- 1 medium sized sweet potato
- 1 ¼ cup all purpose flour
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- salt a pinch
- ½ cup yogurt
- ¼ cup milk
- ½ cup butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
step by step instructions
- Cook the sweet potato on stove top or instant pot (or bake them until soft) and peel and mash it really well and keep aside ( you can also puree the cooked sweet potato if you want).
- In a bowl, mix the dry ingredients together - flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- In another bowl, beat the eggs and add sugar and softened butter, mix everything well.
- In a small bowl, beat the yogurt really well so that there are no lumps.
- Add the yogurt and milk to the mashed/pureed sweet potato and mix everything together.
- Combine the sweet potato - milk - yogurt mixture to the eggs-butter-sugar mixture and stir all the wet ingredients together.
- Now slowly combine the wet ingredients mixture to the dry ingredients mixture and gently stir everything together. If the batter is too thick to mix, you may add little more milk (two tablespoons at a time) and mix well to combine.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit.
- Grease the cake pan with butter and pour the batter.
- Bake the cake for about 50 to 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- The top of my cake got baked really fast at around 30 minutes, so I covered the top using an aluminium foil and then continued baking (I did it because the inside was not cooked but the top was cooked. So make sure you check your cake at around 3 minutes, and see if the top is already cooked so you can cover it with aluminium foil and continue baking.)
- Allow the cake to cool in the rack before you cut and serve!
how to frost sweet potato chocolate cake?
You may enjoy the sweet potato chocolate cake without frosting just like a snack cake or enjoy them for breakfast if you like. However, if you like to add a frosting, you can add delicious chocolate cream cheese frosting or vanilla cream cheese frosting or whipped heavy cream frosting or any frosting of your choice!
more recipes using sweet potatoes:
- roasted sweet potato slices
- sweet potato coconut milk soup
- sweet potato mung bean curry
- sweet potato flatbread
- easy sweet potato cake
more easy cake recipes:
- evaporated milk cake
- moist lemon blueberry cake
- moist dense yellow cake
- blueberry banana cake
- homemade orange cake
- moist chocolate cake
- cranberry chocolate cake
- fluffy vanilla cake
You can find lot more easy, delicious sweets in dessert recipes here.
So here is the my recipe for easy sweet potato chocolate cake recipe from scratch.
Sweet Potato Chocolate Cake From Scratch
Ingredients
- 1 medium sized sweet potato
- 1 ¼ cup flour
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- salt a pinch
- ½ cup yogurt
- ¼ cup milk
- ½ cup butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
Instructions
- Cook the sweet potato on stove top or instant pot (or bake them until soft) and peel and mash it really well and keep aside ( you can also puree the cooked sweet potato if you want)
- In a bowl, mix the dry ingredients together - flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- In another bowl, beat the eggs and add sugar and softened butter, mix everything well.
- In a small bowl, beat the yogurt really well so that there are no lump.
- Add the yogurt and milk to the mashed/pureed sweet potato and mix everything together.
- Combine the sweet potato - milk - yogurt mixture to the eggs-butter-sugar mixture and stir all the wet ingredients together.
- Now slowly combine the wet ingredients mixture to the dry ingredients mixture and gently stir everything together. If the batter is too thick to mix, you may add little more milk (two tablespoons at a time) and mix well to combine.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit.
- Grease the cake pan with butter and pour the batter.
- Bake the cake for about 50 to 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- The top of my cake got baked really fast at around 30 minutes, so I covered the top using an aluminium foil and then continued baking (I did it because the inside was not cooked but the top was cooked. So make sure you check your cake at around 3 minutes, and see if the top is already cooked so you can cover it with aluminium foil and continue baking.) Allow the cake to cool in the rack before you cut and serve!
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