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Chocolate and orange potato cake
Moist and flavourful, this cake goes well with afternoon tea, or as a dessert with a trickle of cream. Mashed potatoes are great trick for achieving a softer cake – just don't add them to the mixture until they're completely cool or they will weigh it down.
Ingredients
- 120g potatoes, peeled, boiled and mashed
- 175g butter
- 225g demerara sugar
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 110g plain chocolate, melted
- grated rind and juice of 1 orange
- 30g cocoa powder
- 225g self-raising flour
Method
Prep time:
10 min
PT10M
Cooking time:
40 min
PT40M
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Step 1
Preheat oven to 180°C/Gas 4 and grease and line a 24cm cake tin.
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Step 2
In a large bowl cream the mashed potato, butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
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Step 3
Beat in eggs and gradually stir in the melted chocolate and juice and rind of an orange.
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Step 4
Lightly fold in the cocoa powder and flour and pour the mixture into the cake tin.
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Step 5
Bake in the centre of the oven for 30-40 minutes.
