chocolate cake with mashed potato in

Austin_Allegro

Angel Delight is basically powdered potato and sugar, and it tastes lovely! My only concern would be that a cake made with potato would probably need quite a lot of sugar to cover up the potato taste.

Angelraesunshine

oh i have heard of lots of people that use 1 or 2 spoonfuls (tablespoons) of mash potato in there cakes any cake for that matter to make it a more moist cake. Though i have been meaning to try it for years but never got round to it we all love mash pots in this house do i never have any left over to put in the cake lol.

LittlePiskey

I've never heard of using mash in cake before but was watching 'Cook yourself thin' last week and they had a recipie for chocolate cake with beetroot as the main ingredient - it looked surprisingly tasty. I think it was channel 4 so they'll probably have the recipie on their site if you're feeling a bit experimental!
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Angelraesunshine

oo i just found this in a write up while on my travels around the web
In the late 1940s, my mother and her friends formed what they referred to loosely as a sewing club. They gathered monthly, in the evening, for conversation, any creative handwork they happened to be doing, and, of course, refreshments. I recall the evenings the sewing club met at our house: the neighborhood gossip, one serious knitter busy with needles clicking away, and the dessert dishes of Mama's famous potato cake. A dark chocolate loaf cake, its dense moistness came from the cold mashed potatoes mixed into the batter. The finished cake, dusted with a veil of powdered sugar and resting on a white doily, was rich and brownielike. Unfortunately, my mother's recipe died with her, and I never learned it. If any of you - my dear readers - come across a chocolate cake recipe that uses mashed potatoes, please send it in!

sandy2_2

Austin_Allegro wrote: »

Angel Delight is basically powdered potato and sugar, and it tastes lovely! My only concern would be that a cake made with potato would probably need quite a lot of sugar to cover up the potato taste.

So could you substitute 'smash' powder for some of the flour, or even Angel Delight (in any flavour)?

I´m just curious to know, don´t suppose I´ll be brave enough to try it

larmy16

I made a slimming world recipe cake with cocoa and chickpeas. They were raving about it on Ivillage diet forum. I have never tasted anything so utterly gross in my life, even thinking about it makes me retch!!!

Waste of ingredients and time in my opinion of course!:D

thriftlady_2

larmy16 wrote: »

I made a slimming world recipe cake with cocoa and chickpeas. They were raving about it on Ivillage diet forum. I have never tasted anything so utterly gross in my life, even thinking about it makes me retch!!!

Waste of ingredients and time in my opinion of course!:D

My goodness that does sound vile :rotfl:

Aria30_2

I've made some really nice double choc chews from the fatfree.com website. My boys really enjoyed them until I said that they'd just eaten prune puree and soft cheese!:rotfl:

boo81

They made a mashed potato choclate cake on blue peter once, im sure it was in the anthea turner days....

Firefly

I've got a lovely recipe for Chocolate Mayonnaise cake; made with a jar of mayo rather than eggs and fat. It's scrummy and nobody ever believes what it's made from!