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Tasty desserts double the fun of the winter season. During this time, people not only make traditional things like carrot halwa, moong dal halwa, but cake is also a great option. Especially children get very excited after seeing the cake. This winter season you can make sweet potato and chocolate cake. Apart from being tasty, chocolate also provides health benefits while sweet potato is also rich in many nutrients. During the winter season, you might have eaten a lot of sweet potatoes roasted on fire, but this time you should make a cake out of it and feed it to everyone in the house. Check out the recipe given here.
Sweet potato, a winter vegetable, has a warming effect. Along with this, it is also nutritious, that is, along with keeping the body warm, it also has benefits like improving immunity and digestion. Chocolate is considered beneficial for your brain and heart and it also boosts energy. So let’s see the recipe of Chocolate-Sweet Potato Cake.
Note the ingredients
One and a half cup sweet potato puree (about 420 grams), 2 eggs. 1 teaspoon maple syrup, half cup cacao powder approximately 43 grams. Apart from this, you can also take some other things which will enhance the taste of the cake, but these are optional, like one spoon vanilla extract, one fourth spoon salt. 1/4 teaspoon espresso powder. For cake frosting, you will need half cup dark chocolate tips and 2 teaspoons heavy cream (at room temperature).
Cake Making Equipments
You will need a large mixing bowl, round cake pan, wire rack. Will need mini pot, oven. Preheat the oven to 350℉ and line a cake pan with parchment paper. Now know the recipe.
How to make cake
- Break eggs into a large bowl. Also add maple syrup and vanilla extract to it and beat all three things well.
- When all three things are mixed, add sweet potato puree to it and keep stirring until it swells well and it starts feeling light.
- Sieve cocoa powder and salt in the prepared paste. All things have to be whipped until your batter looks smooth and fluffy.
- Pour this batter in the cake pan that you had already prepared and spread it evenly with the help of a spatula.
- Now you have to lightly tap the cake pan on the counter for some time so that the air bubbles present inside the batter come out.
- Let the cake bake for about 1 hour. After this, take it out and let it cool on a wire rack for about half an hour and then after that you can keep it in the freezer.
- Melt the chocolate chips in a small bowl in a double boiler. After this add cream kept at room temperature.
- Mix both the things well till they become completely smooth. After this, take out the cake from the fridge and spread the chocolate-cream mixture evenly on it.
- To make the cake more delicious and garnish it, add some grated chocolate on top. Your chocolate sweet potato cake is ready.
Also read: Include spinach in your diet in these five ways in winter, you will get plenty of iron.