# Sweet Potato Pecan Pound Cake with Sweet Buttermilk Glaze

A moist sweet potato pecan cake topped with a sweet buttermilk glaze, perfect for holiday baking.

- Total time: 60 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2 sticks softened butter
- 3 cups sugar
- 1 cup mashed sweet potato puree
- 4 room temperature eggs
- 1 cup room temperature buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 0.5 teaspoon nutmeg
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- chopped pecans or pecan halves
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- 1 teaspoon cake batter extract
- buttermilk

## Instructions

1. Start with two sticks of softened butter, salted or unsalted.
2. Add three cups of white sugar to the butter and cream them together.
3. Add one cup of mashed sweet potato puree.
4. Add four room temperature eggs.
5. Gradually add the sweet potato puree into the creamed butter and sugar mixture.
6. Start adding the eggs into the batter.
7. Combine one cup of room temperature buttermilk with one tablespoon of vanilla extract and set aside.
8. Add one teaspoon of baking soda, one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of cinnamon, and a half a teaspoon of nutmeg (or more to taste) into the batter.
9. Gradually add three cups of all-purpose flour to the batter, alternating with the wet ingredients.
10. Pour the batter into a prepared pan.
11. Sprinkle chopped pecans or pecan halves on top of the batter.
12. Bake the cake in a 350-degree Fahrenheit oven for about an hour, checking at 45 minutes.
13. To make the buttermilk glaze, combine two cups of powdered sugar, one tablespoon of melted butter, and one teaspoon of cake batter extract.
14. Add just enough buttermilk to the glaze mixture to achieve the desired consistency (thick or thin).

## Equipment

- oven
- prepared pan

## Tips

- Gradually add sweet potatoes into creamed butter and sugar.
- Alternate wet and dry ingredients when mixing the cake batter.
- Start checking the cake at 45 minutes for doneness.
- Adjust nutmeg quantity to taste.
- Adjust buttermilk in glaze to achieve desired consistency.

## Source

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- Extracted: 2026-05-19

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