Chocolate Potato Cake

Name: Chocolate Potato Cake
Ingredients: 1/2 lb / 225g butter; 2 1/3 cups / 1 pound / 450g / caster or granulated sugar (superfine works best if you have it handy); 4 eggs; 9 rounded tablespoons grated chocolate (approximately 3 standard squares of baking chocolate, or 90 grams / 3 1/2 ounces of other chocolate); 5 rounded tablespoons / 50g / 1 3/4 ounces ground almonds; 3 tablespoons cocoa; 1 cup / 5 ounces / 150g of cold, sieved or riced cooked potato (see below for specific directions about the potato); 2 1/2 cups / 10 ounces / 300g flour (plain flour is fine, but cake flour is better if you have it); 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; 2 rounded teaspoons baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 2/3 cup / 5 fluid ounces / UK 1/4 pint / 150ml milk; For preparing the pan you'll bake in:; 1 1/2 tablespoons flour; 1 1/2 tablespoons cocoa

Chocolate Potato Cake was pinched from <a href="http://www.europeancuisines.com/Ireland-Irish-Chocolate-Potato-Cake-Recipe-March-7-2009" target="_blank">www.europeancuisines.com.</a>

INGREDIENTS

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1/2 lb / 225g butter

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2 1/3 cups / 1 pound / 450g / caster or granulated sugar (superfine works best if you have it handy)

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4 eggs

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9 rounded tablespoons grated chocolate (approximately 3 standard squares of baking chocolate, or 90 grams / 3 1/2 ounces of other chocolate)

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5 rounded tablespoons / 50g / 1 3/4 ounces ground almonds

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3 tablespoons cocoa

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1 cup / 5 ounces / 150g of cold, sieved or riced cooked potato (see below for specific directions about the potato)

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2 1/2 cups / 10 ounces / 300g flour (plain flour is fine, but cake flour is better if you have it)

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1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

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2 rounded teaspoons baking powder

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1/2 teaspoon salt

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2/3 cup / 5 fluid ounces / UK 1/4 pint / 150ml milk

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For preparing the pan you'll bake in:

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1 1/2 tablespoons flour

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1 1/2 tablespoons cocoa

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