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This blog is primarily cake-recipe based, but, from time to time, I will include some savoury ones too. I also like to write about my travels and encounters, especially if they involve great food. I speak as I find. Opinions expressed are my own, and not sponsored, requested, or paid for by others, unless specifically stated.

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Tuesday 14 February 2012

Chocolate Cake with a Twist

Chocolate Cake = Cake for St. Valentine's day.  Agreed?  Add some Potatoes to the mix.......yes, potatoes, and it makes for a very luscious cake indeed.

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16 comments:

  1. My mother made a cake with potato years ago - only remembered it now and from what I can remember it was very moist! After all it is a starch.....

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    1. Indeed it is, Maggie, and you can't taste the potato in it at all.

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  2. Your chocolate cake sounds amazing!
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  3. Put's a whole different meaning on 'potato' cake!

    Margaret

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  4. This is very interesting Colette!! Must give it a go, love carrot cake so why not this!! Love the way you decorated it, very elegant!

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    1. Thank you, Paula. It tastes great, and you cannot tell there are potatoes in it. The daisies are from Dr. Oetker (edible wafers), handy to have :)

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  5. Colette, this cake sounds very interesting. Will have to try it, need to get my hands on another potato ricer first though, I threw my last one out in a fit of rage a while ago.

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    1. Thanks, Adrienne. A fork will do a good enough job too. Just give it a thorough mashing :)

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  6. I haven't tried potatoes in a cake, but I added them into a bread, so it's almost the same thing :) I don't own potato ricer (actually I didn't know this name at all), but I do love my potato masher attachment to my blender :)

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    1. Yes, exactly the same idea, Magda. A potato ricer is like a large version of a garlic press, but a fork will do also.

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  7. Cute cute potato cake indeed. We have a cheesy potato scone recipe that calls for raw grated potato and it produces a lovely moist scone too. Love getting the veg into the sweets for the kids.

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    1. Aw, thank you, Móna, it was certainly a surprise for me, and a great addition to a cake, or, indeed a scone. Will be hunting down more potato recipes!

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  8. Potatoes you say? Mama mia.......but the result I can see is amazing.....pretty too....

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    1. Thank you for your comment, Catríona. You cannot taste the potato whatsoever! Lots of folks see potato and think it will be awful, but it's really moist and very surprising.

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