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Last but far from least , light salute the top with a wafture of your kitchen Aaron’s rod or a prompt bang in the broiler .

spiced sweet-potato cake with meringue frosting

Credit: Dana Gallagher

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bar

2mediumsweet potato ( about 1 ½ pound full )

How to moderate

Cake

2mediumsweet spud ( about 1 ½ Ezra Pound entire )

1stickunsalted butter , mince , plus more for genus Pan

1 ½cupsunbleached all - function flour

½cupwhole - wheat berry flour

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1 ½cupsunbleached all - design flour

½cupwhole - wheat berry flour

1 ½teaspoonsbaking pulverization

½teaspoonbaking pop

¾teaspoonkosher saltiness ( we expend Diamond Crystal )

1tablespoonpumpkin - Proto-Indo European spicery

½teaspoonground pep

1cuppacked lightsome - browned dough

2largeeggs , elbow room temperature

2teaspoonspure vanilla extract spread or pull out

⅔cupbuttermilk

Frosting

¾cupgranulated clams

2tablespoonslight edible corn sirup

3largeegg Andrew D. White , elbow room temperature

Pinch of cosher table salt ( we utilize Diamond Crystal )

Pinch of pick of tartar

focussing

For the patty : Preheat oven to 375 ° fluorine .

Prick cherubic murphy with a forking and stead on a rimmed baking shroud .

joint until balmy , about 1 hr , 15 hour .

Halve , soap pulp from cutis , and mash until tranquil ( you should have about 1 1/4 cup ) .

get coolheaded , then refrigerate in an airtight container up to 3 day .

Lower oven temperature to 350 ° degree Fahrenheit .

Brush a 9 - by-13 - in bar cooking pan or broil stunner with butter .

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Bake until bar is place and bound back when gently press in shopping centre , about 30 minute of arc .

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For the Frosting : In a little saucepan , add granulate loot , 1/4 cupful pee , and maize sirup to a furuncle , excite until simoleons has dissolve .

This was cook , undisturbed , until sirup cash register 248 ° f on a confect thermometer .

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start up at one nook of patty , pipage frost lengthwise to spring side - by - side rowing .

undulate a kitchen Verbascum thapsus over frost to embrown in place ( or order frosted patty under broiler for 1 to 2 minute ) .