Potato and Chocolate Cake

Name: Potato and Chocolate Cake
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 2 fl oz (50 ml) milk; 2 oz (50 g) plain chocolate; 2 tablespoons double cream; 4 oz (110 g) plain flour; Pinch of salt; 3 eggs, separated; 2½ oz (65 g) butter or margarine; 7 oz (200 g) caster sugar; 1 tablespoon rum; 4 oz (110 g) potato, peeled and cooked; ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

So many chocolate cakes seem dry. This recipe makes a lovely, moist cake. Serve filled with whipped cream.

Ingredients

4 oz (110 g) potato, peeled and cooked
2 tablespoons double cream<

Cake
Dessert
Wedding/Marriage
March
Vegetarian

Method

Purée the potatoes. Add the cream and place in a bowl over a pan of hot water.

Beat the butter and sugar in a separate bowl. Melt the chocolate and stir it in. Add the potatoes.

Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in a little water and add to the mixture. Beat in the egg yolks.

Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder. Fold into the mixture alternately with the milk