Chocolate Potato Cake
Who knew that potatoes could be included in a dessert? Well now you do - so why not give this Chocolate Potato Cake recipe it a try?
Chocolate potato cake
Servings: 10
Keywords: Chocolate, Potato, Cake
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 40 mins
- Total Time: 55 mins
Ingredients
- 85 g Mashed Potato
- 150 g Self Raising Flour
- 20 g Cocoa Powder
- 170 g Caster Sugar
- 175 g Unsalted Butter
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 2 Eggs (Beaten)
- 3 tbsp Milk
- 150 g Icing Sugar
- 1 Orange
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar together until light in colour and creamy. Beat in egg slowly until mixture is smooth.
- Sieve the flour, cocoa and baking powder and fold into the butter/sugar/egg mixture. Lastly stir in the potato and milk.
- Pour the mixture into a greased, lined 10” cake tin and bake at 190oC for 35-40 mins until a skewer comes out clean from the centre.
- Cool on a rack.
- Zest the orange and reserve. Sieve the icing sugar into a bowl, whisk in half the orange juice to form a paste that will pour over the cake. Pour icing over the cake and decorate with the zest.