Sweet Potato Pudding Cake With Bourbon Pecan Toppi
Ingredients
1/4 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 C. margarine
2 eggs, beaten
3/4 C. sugar
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 C. hot sweet potatoes, mashed
1/2 C. milk
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1/8 C. bourbon, warmed
Bourbon Pecan Topping
1 stick butter
1/2 C. brown sugar, packed
1/4 C. cream or half and half
1/4 C. bourbon
1 C. coconut
1 C. pecans, chopped
Cooking Instructions
Preheat oven at 350. Combine flour, salt, baking powder; sift, add margarine, eggs, sugar, nutmeg plus cinnamon to hot mashed potatoes. Beat thoroughly Add flour and milk alternately. Beat well after each addition. Add lemon juice. Grease loaf pan; pour mixture into it. Bake 60-80 minutes until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from oven; immediately punch holes in top of cake with ice pick. Brush top with warm bourbon. Make topping and spoon over pudding cake while until in pan. Cut cake down middle; slice crosswise. Topping – Melt butter add sugar and cream. Stir in bourbon. Bring to boil; boil 3 minutes. Cool plus heat until it thickens. Add coconut and pecans, Pour over cake and run under broiler until it bubbles.
While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is My body." (Matthew 26:26)
