Get Your Sweet Tooth Out Ladies!

What You’ll Need: 

 Cake Ingredients:

3 eggs
3 c all purpose flour
2 c sugar
1 TBSP baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground cloves
2 c (6 medium) bananas, mashed
1 c canola oil
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
2 c sweet potatoes, peeled, shredded and uncooked (about 1/2 lb)
1 can (8 oz) crushed pineapple, drained

Caramel Topping Ingredients:

1 c butter
2 c packed brown sugar
1/2 c milk
6 c powdered sugar

Fool-Proof Directions:

Cake:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place wax paper in the bottom of 3 - 9 inch cake pans.  Oil and flour pans including the wax paper.  Allow eggs to come to room temperature about 30 minutes.  Mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cloves. Slightly beat eggs and add to flour mixture.  Stir in bananas, oil, and vanilla until most and thick.  Add sweet potatoes and pineapple.  Stir well.  Pour into prepared cake pans.  Bake 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.  Cool slightly.  Remove from pans and remove wax paper from cake.  Cool completely.

Topping:

In large saucepan over medium heat melt butter.  Add brown sugar.  Bring mixture to a boil stirring continously.  After mixture begins to boil continue to cook 1 minute.  Allow mixture to cool about 4 minutes.  Add milk and stir until very smooth.  Add powdered sugar and stir well. 

To frost cake place one layer on cake plate and frost only the top.  Add second layer and frost the top and thrid layer and frost the top and slightly down the sides.  Be sure to use frosting immediately.  Once cool it hardens and is impossible to spread.