Chocolate and Hazelnut Refrigerator Cake

Name: Chocolate and Hazelnut Refrigerator Cake
Ingredients: 2 oz (50 g) hazelnuts; 4 oz (110 g) cold mashed potato; 1 oz (25 g) sugar; 1 egg; 4 oz (110 g) plain chocolate; 2 oz (50 g) glacé cherries; 4 oz (110 g) butter; 4 oz (110 g) crushed biscuit; 1 teaspoon instant coffee; 1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

This is a rich dense cake. The recipe was given to me by An Bord Glas (now part of Bord Bia).

Ingredients

4 oz (110 g) cold mashed potato
2 oz (50

Cake
Dessert
January
Vegetarian

Method

Roast the hazelnuts for a few minutes, then remove the skins by rubbing in a clean cloth and chop roughly.

Melt the chocolate in a basin over a pan of hot water. As soon as it is melted, remove from the heat. Melt the butter.

Beat the egg with the sugar, coffee and vanilla essence. Stir in the butter and the chocolate, then the hazelnuts and glacé cherries and finally the potato