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Serves
12 to 16
Author Notes
Potatoes are a baker’s secret weapon. They add excellent moisture and structure to baked items along with breads of all kinds apart from truffles. By mixing in cooked potatoes, that it is possible you’ll assign away with about a of the elephantine and add fiber and nutrients which invent decadent truffles a runt bit much less unhealthy, but in reality, no person will know except you repeat them! —janeofmanytrade
Test Kitchen Notes
WHO: Janeofmanytrade is a pastry chef, beekeeper, and worn soccer mother residing in Nashville.
WHAT: Potatoes in their chocolatiest, sultriest form.
HOW: Mash a potato, soften chocolate, enact the wet ingredient-dry ingredient cake breeze, and bake. Top with a chocolate glaze.
WHY WE LOVE IT: We take care of how the potato provides a obvious moistness that chocolate truffles can lack — without seeming too starchy or luscious. Plus, the facets of the cake that contact the bundt pan procure crackly: a excellent distinction to the swish cake inner.
—The Editors
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Test Kitchen-Licensed
Ingredients
- The Cake
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1
actual baking potato
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2 cups
sugar
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1 3/4 cups
cake flour
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1 1/2 teaspoons
baking soda
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4 oz
unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled a runt bit
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4 oz
unsalted butter, softened
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1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
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2
actual eggs
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3/4 cup
buttermilk
- Chocolate Ganache Glaze
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4 oz
bittersweet chocolate
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1/3 cup
half and half
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a actual bundt or tube pan and plight it apart. Peel the potato and cleave it into actual cubes. Field the cubes in a saucepot and quilt with water. Field over medium high heat, bring to a boil, and cook till the potatoes are cushy. Drain the water off and the usage of a masher or a mixer, mash the potatoes till no lumps (or very little ones) remain. Measure out 3/4 cup for the recipe. Steal the ultimate potatoes, season them as you need, and eat them sooner than they procure cold.
- In a actual mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, plight the sugar, cake flour and baking soda and with the mixer on low, allow the combination to combine, about 1 minute. Add the potatoes, butter, melted chocolate, and vanilla and blend on low speed to combine. Elevate the charge to medium and allow it to beat till fluffy, about 2 to a pair of minutes.
- Drag collectively the eggs and the buttermilk. Slowly add the combination to the batter. Catch 22 situation the bowl properly and combine it fully. Catch 22 situation the batter staunch into a pan and bake till a purchase inserted comes out natty, about an hour. Allow the cake to cold in the pan for 20 minutes and then assign shut it from the pan to invent cooling on a rack.
- Field the glaze formula in a little sauté pan over low heat. As this heats, trot it to melt the chocolate. Function no longer let it boil or simmer. Take stirring till half the chocolate is melted. Want from the warmth and continue stirring to melt the ultimate lumps. When the cake has fully cooled, employ a piping uncover or a spoon to drizzle the glaze over the pause of the cake.