About The Company
The Sweet Potato Cake Company is a small pastry company based in Charlotte, NC that specializes in the preparation of the Sweet Potato Cake. Founder and Chef Mattie F. Snowden established the company as a means to fulfill a lifelong dream as well as do her part to ensure families had a reason to join together around the dinner table.
Why Sweet Potato Cake?
The Sweet Potato Cake is a rich, spice based cake that features golden sweet potatoes, savory crushed pineapples, flavorful raisins, and warn toasted walnuts. Mattie says a cake of this caliber and density is difficult for the average person to bake because the many different ingredients commonly causes the cake not to rise.
Although the Sweet Potato Cake is rare in and of itself self Mattie adds additional special touches to make each cake unique. Mattie christens each cake with her own homemade, mouth watering Cream Cheese icing. Mattie also shares that it is a bakers secret that the environment and emotional state of the baker is important to making a quality cake. To that end, “I am very cautious of the people I let in my Baking Kitchen.” I ensure that there is always an environment of love, gratitude and acceptance when my cakes are being prepared. Mattie says she also enjoys having spiritual music playing during the preparation and baking process to ensure her treats really are good for the soul.
Mattie chose this cake to be her specialty because of its rarity and the undeniable health benefits. Mattie says the recipe for her Sweet potato Cake dates back over 60 years in her family. “My grandmother use to bake Sweet Potato Cakes to ensure the children received our share of protein and antioxidants.
Health Benefits of the Sweet Potato:
Unique Proteins with Potent Antioxidant Effects
Sweet potatoes contain unique root storage proteins that have been observed to have significant antioxidant capacities. In many scientific studies, these proteins had about one-third the antioxidant activity of glutathione-one of the body's most impressive internally produced antioxidants. These potent antioxidants are believed to be what gives sweet potatoes their natural healing properties.
An Antioxidant-Rich, Anti-Inflammatory Food
As an excellent source of vitamin A (in the form of beta-carotene) and a very good source of vitamin C, sweet potatoes have healing properties as an antioxidant food. Both beta-carotene and vitamin C are very powerful antioxidants that work in the body to eliminate free radicals. Since these nutrients are also anti-inflammatory, they can be helpful in reducing the severity of conditions where inflammation plays a role, such as asthma, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Why Sweet Potato Cake?
The Sweet Potato Cake is a rich, spice based cake that features golden sweet potatoes, savory crushed pineapples, flavorful raisins, and warn toasted walnuts. Mattie says a cake of this caliber and density is difficult for the average person to bake because the many different ingredients commonly causes the cake not to rise.
Although the Sweet Potato Cake is rare in and of itself self Mattie adds additional special touches to make each cake unique. Mattie christens each cake with her own homemade, mouth watering Cream Cheese icing. Mattie also shares that it is a bakers secret that the environment and emotional state of the baker is important to making a quality cake. To that end, “I am very cautious of the people I let in my Baking Kitchen.” I ensure that there is always an environment of love, gratitude and acceptance when my cakes are being prepared. Mattie says she also enjoys having spiritual music playing during the preparation and baking process to ensure her treats really are good for the soul.
Mattie chose this cake to be her specialty because of its rarity and the undeniable health benefits. Mattie says the recipe for her Sweet potato Cake dates back over 60 years in her family. “My grandmother use to bake Sweet Potato Cakes to ensure the children received our share of protein and antioxidants.
Health Benefits of the Sweet Potato:
Unique Proteins with Potent Antioxidant Effects
Sweet potatoes contain unique root storage proteins that have been observed to have significant antioxidant capacities. In many scientific studies, these proteins had about one-third the antioxidant activity of glutathione-one of the body's most impressive internally produced antioxidants. These potent antioxidants are believed to be what gives sweet potatoes their natural healing properties.
An Antioxidant-Rich, Anti-Inflammatory Food
As an excellent source of vitamin A (in the form of beta-carotene) and a very good source of vitamin C, sweet potatoes have healing properties as an antioxidant food. Both beta-carotene and vitamin C are very powerful antioxidants that work in the body to eliminate free radicals. Since these nutrients are also anti-inflammatory, they can be helpful in reducing the severity of conditions where inflammation plays a role, such as asthma, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis.
