Potato Sponge Cake with Walnuts

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Potato Year: 300 Classic Recipes

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

  • About

This is a light cake, made without butter, and best eaten warm from the oven.

Ingredients

  • 11 oz (310 g) potatoes, cooked and puréed
  • 6 eggs

Method

While the puréed potatoes are cooling, start to prepare the cake. Separate the eggs, beat the yolks with the sugar until the consistency is silky. Add the lemon rind, the flour, the cinnamon and lastly the potatoes. Then add the walnuts to the mixture. Whip the egg whites until stiff and fold them in gently.

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