Chocolate Potato Cake – Including Crucial Arthur Flour’s Gluten-Free Multipurpose Flour — A Tutorial

A Two-Layer Cake Recipe

An old-fashioned chocolate cake that treats your mouth to a memorable combination of sweet, tender cake, crunchy nuts and a bit of cinnamon, this recipe of my grandmother’s adapted well to using gluten-free flours.

When I was young, before I’d ever heard of celiac disease or gluten intolerance, my grandmother’s recipe was my family’s favorite chocolate cake.  Naturally, I was pretty happy that it adapted well to my new cooking needs.  Probably the mashed potatoes have something to do with that.

The best gluten-free version I’ve tasted is with the King Arthur Flour GF Multipurpose Flour.  (I am not affiliated with King Arthur Flour in any way.  This is my personal opinion of their product.)

It doesn’t really even need frosting.  Many times my family has made this in a tube pan or a Bundt pan and not even put frosting on it.  It’s that good.  However, if you like frosting, you’ll probably want to try it on this.
Gluten-Free Chocolate Potato Cake
Ingredients:

1 cup butter, softened

2 cups sugar

4 Large eggs

2/3 cup milk (I used 1% this time)

2 cups gluten-free flour, King Arthur Glutenfree Multipurpose Mix

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, ground

1/2 cup cocoa, Hershey’s

1 cup mashed potatoes, cooled

1 cup pecans, broken

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups chocolate frosting

 

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Prepare pans by greasing well and lining with parchment:   8′ round pans (3 of them) or 9″ round pans (2 of them) or a loaf pan or a tube pan.

Cream the butter and sugar until light in texture.

Beat in eggs.

Combine dry ingredients and mix well. Add about 1/3 of dry ingredients to batter at a time, stirring carefully (low speed on mixer). Stir just until mixed — do not overbeat!

Combine milk and vanilla.  Add 1/2 of the milk to the batter, stirring carefully until just mixed.

Alternate the rest

Chocolate Potato Cake – Including Crucial Arthur Flour’s Gluten-Free Multipurpose Flour — A Tutorial

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