Chocolate Potato Cake

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Title: CHOCOLATE POTATO CAKE
Categories: Cakes
Yield: 1 Servings

1/2 lb Potatoes; peeled
1/2 c Milk
2 c Flour, all-purpose; sifted
2 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Salt
1 c Shortening
2 c Sugar
4 Eggs
1 ts Vanilla extract
1 1/2 oz Chocolate, unsweetened; melt
Whipped cream
Chocolate frosting; * see no

Recipe by: Jo Anne Merrill Preparation Time: 1:30 *use your favorite
chocolate frosting recipe to finish the cake. Cook potatoes in small amount
of boiling water until tender. Drain well and shake pan over low heat to
dry potatoes thoroughly. Force hot potatoes through a sieve or ricer.
Combine 1 cup of the potatotes with milk; set aside.
Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Cream shortening; beat in
sugar gradually until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating
well after each addition. Mix in vanilla and melted chocolate. Add dry
ingredients in 4 parts and potato mixture in 3 parts alternately to creamed
mixture. Beat only until smooth after each addition. Spread batter in 2
greased and waxed paper-lined 9-inch cake pans. Bake in preheated 350
degree oven for 45 minutes or until cake tests done. Remove from oven and
let stand in pans for 10 minutes. Remove from pans and cool.
Fill with whipped cream and frost with chocolate frosting.

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