Chocolate Spice Cake with Potato recipe

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Ingredients

1 potato, cubed
1 cup butter
2 cups packed brown sugar
4 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
½ teaspoon ground cloves
1 cup milk
1 (1 ounce) square semisweet chocolate, melted
1 cup chopped pecans

Nutrition Info

475.4 calories
carbohydrate: 59.2 g
cholesterol: 104.3 mg
fat: 25 g
fiber: 2.2 g
protein: 6.5 g
saturatedFat: 11.6 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 233.9 mg
sugar: 38.5 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bring a saucepan of water to a boil. Add potato and cook until tender but still firm, about 15 minutes. Drain, cool and mash. Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.

  2. Cream butter, gradually add brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in mashed potatoes.

  3. Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in melted chocolate and pecans. Pour batter into a prepared 10 inch Bundt pan.

  4. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour or until cake tests done. Cool in pan 20 minutes, remove cake from pan, and cool completely before serving.

Recipe Yield

1 - 10 inch Bundt cake

Recipe Note

Mashed potatoes give this chocolate spice cake a wonderful texture.

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