Sweet Potato Snack Cake
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Recipe type: Snack
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Serves: 9
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cup organic whole wheat pastry flour (lightly fill your measuring cup with a spoon, do not pack it in)
  • ½ cup quinoa flour (lightly fill your measuring cup with a spoon, do not pack it in)
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1½ teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1½ teaspoon ginger
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
  • ⅛ teaspoon cloves
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup sweet potato (~1 large or 2 small potatoes. Using leftover sweet potatoes is great or you can microwave ahead of time)
  • ⅓ cup packed brown sugar
  • ¼ cup molasses
  • 2 eggs
  • ⅓ cup neutral tasting oil, like canola or avocado oil
  • ½ cup hot water
  • Topping:
  • 2 tablespoons confectioners sugar plus ½ teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
  1. To cook sweet potatoes in a hurry, pierce a few times with a fork and cook in microwave for ~7 minutes or until soft (add an additional minute until soft) or bake in oven for 45 minutes at 375 (great to use leftover sweet potatoes that are already cooled). Let sweet potatoes cool before using.
  2. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Combine all dry ingredients in a bowl (whole wheat pastry flour through salt). In a larger bowl mix sugar, molasses, eggs, sweet potato and oil with an electric mixer for about 30 seconds or until smooth. Next, slowly pour in very hot water to the wet ingredients while mixing on low.
  3. Pour half of dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix on low. Add the remaining dry ingredients and continue to mix until combined. Do not over beat the mixture.
  4. Pour into a prepared 8x8 baking dish (I cut a piece of square parchment paper for the bottom then rub butter on it and dust it with a little flour). Bake for 30-35 minutes at 325 degrees or until toothpick comes out clean. Avoid over baking so the cake won't get dried out.
  5. Once the it cools, use a sifter to sift powdered sugar cinnamon all over the top. (you will have some cinnamon powdered sugar leftover). Cut and enjoy. If you aren't serving until later, wait on dusting it with the cinnamon powdered sugar because overtime it will absorb into the cake.
Notes
If your oven runs hot, check cake a couple minutes early.
This is not an overly sweet cake. If that is what you are looking for, you will want to increase the amount of brown sugar used.
Recipe by Nutritious Eats at https://www.nutritiouseats.com/gingerbread-sweet-potato-snack-cake/