A classic "Sunday" cake that best expresses the versatility of potatoes, perfect also in a sweet version.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of mountain potatoes (yellow paste)
- 130 g of margarine
- 200 g of sugar
- 1/2 vanilla pod
- 1 untreated lemon
- 2 tablespoons of Rhum
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 bag of vanilla yeast
- 125 g of white yogurt
- 4 tablespoons full of cornstarch or potato starch
- 1/2 tablespoon of flour
- 60 g of finely chopped almonds
- 3 tablespoons of icing sugar
- 1 tablespoon of semolina
[Credit Non Sprecare]
Preparation:
- Boil the potatoes without peeling them.
- Peel them still hot, pass them through a vegetable mill or with a potato masher and weigh 800 g. Any surplus, use it for another preparation.
- Oil a cake tin 28 cm in diameter and sprinkle with the flour mixed with a tablespoon of sugar.
- In a large bowl, combine the yogurt with the sugar, a pinch of salt, the grated lemon peel and the seeds of vanilla until they are light and fluffy.
- Then incorporate the margarine and keep stirring.
- Then add the potatoes, stir, add the cornstarch coming down from a sieve, with the yeast, the almonds and the rum. Pour the mixture into the cake tin and level the surface.
- Bake at 180 ° C for about 60 minutes.
- When the cake is cold sprinkle with icing sugar using a sheet of decorated paper or flaked almonds.