aunt bessies mashed potato

rattyhatty | 20:51 Tue 06th May 2008 | Recipes

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how many grams off mashed potato in the packet , i want to make delias chocolate cake with mashed potato
i live in spain so cant buy aunt bessie

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pastafreak

I can't tell you but maybe you could try the Aunt Bessie website.

squarebear

Chocolate cake with mashed potato?! Yeurgh

rattyhatty

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thanks will try

Jugglering

Rattyhatty - the BBC website gives these ingredients for a chocolate cake made with mashed potato and I discovered that each frozen disc of Aunt Bessie's mashed potato weighs 1.25 oz (which is approx 35g), so I guess you would need at least two discs for this recipe. I also understand that 5 spice powder was one of the ingredients .... I'd not put that in a sweet cake !

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

150g self-raising flour
150g caster sugar
5 tablespoons cocoa powder
Pinch salt
75g cooked mashed potato
100g butter
2 eggs
4 tablespoons milk

Cream together the butter, sugar and mashed potato. Add the cocoa. Beat the eggs and add to the potato mixture. Fold in the flour and salt. Add the milk and mix gently. Put the mixture into two greased 8" sandwich tins. Bake at 400�F/190�C (gas mark 6) for 20 - 25 minutes. It's cooked if you spear the cake with a skewer and it comes out clean. Leave the cakes to cool, then sandwich together with whipped cream and dust with icing sugar.
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A533422 scroll down to very close to the bottom of the page)

I've also found another recipe for Chocolate Cake - have a peek here:- http://www.starchefs.com/chocolate_lovers/2002 /html/may/recipe_01.shtml

rattyhatty

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thank you so much will make your cho
colete cake jugglering

Jugglering

No problem ratty - but it isn't my recipe at all ! (It's off the BBC website). From reading the stuff on the star chefs site though, I think I'd rather use their recipe. Whichever one you go for, don't add any salt, butter, milk or anything else to the mashed potato, it really does need to be *plain*.