Chocolate and Hazelnut Potato Cake

Name: Chocolate and Hazelnut Potato Cake
Yield: Serve at Least Ten People
Ingredients: 3 oz (75 g) good quality plain chocolate, melted; 14 oz (400 g) sugar; 4 eggs; 8 oz (225 g) butter; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 1 teaspoon grated orange rind; ½ teaspoon nutmeg; 10 oz (275 g) plain flour, sifted; 4 oz (110 g) hazelnuts, chopped; Whipped cream; 1 teaspoon baking powder, sifted; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; 3 oz (75 g) purée of potato; ¼ pint (150 ml) milk

Preparation info

Serve at Least
Ten
People

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

The presence of potato in this recipe may seem lacking in significance, because of the small amount; nonetheless the result is a moist, dense cake that will serve at least ten people.

Ingredients

3 oz (75 g) purée of potato
8 oz (225

Cake
Dessert
September
Vegetarian

Method

Cream the butter and the sugar, add the eggs one at a time and beat well. Beat in the melted chocolate, potato, cinnamon, orange rind and nutmeg.

Mix the flour with the baking powder and the lemon juice with the milk, and then mix alternate spoonfuls of these into the cake mixture. Stir in the nuts.

Put into a greased 9-