Mashed Potatoes In A Cake Mix???
Decorating By DisneyDreamer Updated 20 Nov 2006 , 12:28am by good36
Mashed Potatoes in a cake mix??? I have heard of it but have never used it! But he i never thought of using sour cream or yogurt so i thought i would give it a go! How much mashed potatoes should i use one cup?? Has anyone tried this?????
I've never heard of that one before. I'll be looking for responses as well to hear about it.
Thats a new one for me! I'd love to hear about it as well!
This is what I found...
http://www.starchefs.com/chocolate_lovers/2002/html/may/recipe_01.shtml
Mashed Potato Cake
1 cup butteer or margarine, softened
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup cold mashed potatoes
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1 teaspoon bakind soda
1 cup milk
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
cream butter and sugar until fluffy. add eggs, one at a time beating well after each. blend in
potatoes and vanilla. combine flour, cocoa and soda in small bowl, mix well. add alternately with
the milk blending well after each adition. stir in nuts. pour into a greased sheet cake pan (recipe
calls for (13x9x2) bake at 350* for 40 to 45 minutes or until cake tests done. cool on wire rack.
she told me the recipe diddn't call for any frosting, but she used a good sour cream frosting from
the store (Betty Crocker)
Yes! My gramma is the one who told me to use mayonnaise years ago! It works well for getting them moist. Thats why back in the day (some still do it) gals would coat their hair with it for a moisturizer. I havent done it it years. I really love the extender recipes now!
I've heard of adding the water you cook mashed potatoes in, to doughs, like cinnamon rolls. It's supposed to help them rise or make them moist. My MIL's trick, drain the water off the potatoes and use that for the water in the recipe. Never done it, but she swears by it. I'm an instant mashed potato maker 
DH loves them 
I have a recipe for potato chip cookies. They are so good also.
When I mash potatoes I add milk, butter, salt and pepper. So for this recipe are they speaking of plain boiled potatoes, mashed without milk and butter? And I assume she means without salt and pepper as well.
I'm a lot older than most of you here, but probably close to 50 years ago there was a chain of donut shops called Spud Nuts, they made the most delicious donuts and the dough had mashed potaoes in it. All of the shops went out of business so many years ago in our area but about 4 years ago I was in Point Hueneme, California, not sure that is spelled correctly, town near Santa Barbara and lo and behold here was a Spud Nut shop. I stopped and bought a dozen and we ate them all in one sitting. Just as good as they were 50 years ago.
The mayo cake is AWESOME my aunt use to make it all the time. I think the recipe is on allrcipes.com I hope that helps
I've seen the recipe on the back of Best Food Mayonaise jars, or Heimann's I think is what the east coast calls best foods. I'm just guessing, but since mayonaise is esentially just oil and eggs, maybe you would use that to substitute for those 2 ingredients? I dunno. I've heard you can substitute applesauce for the oil also.
I have baked a Date and Walnut cake from one of my recipe books and it had mashed potato as one of the ingredients. The cake was perfect and stayed moist for ages!
You can't taste the potato in the cake!
I will see if I can find the recipe if anyone is interested, you might be able to use the mashed potato in a similar quantity in another recipe if you want to play around with it!
This is from "The Australia Womans Weekly, 100 favourite cakes".
Moist Date and Walnut Cake
4oz butter
1 cup castor sugar
3/4 cup cooked mashed potato
2 eggs
1/2 cup plain flour
1/2 cup self-raising flour
1 teaspoon nutmeg
2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
4oz chopped walnuts
4oz dates
1/4 cup milk
Chop dates, put in saucepan with milk bring to the boil.
Remove from heat and leave to cool.
cream butter, sugar + lemon rind until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition. Gradually add cold mashed potato, beat well. Fold in sifted flour + nutmeg. fold in wallnuts then cold date+milk mixture.
place mixture in greased and lined 8 inch round tin. bake in moderate oven 45 - 50 mins. cool in tin before turning out.
There are loads of great recipes in this book If you come across it I would buy one! My grandmother always used this book as I was growing up and her cakes were always perfect!
I've got a very old recipe book called "Potatoes for all Occasions". Amongst many other things there is a recipe for potato chocolate cake, one for potato apple cake, one for potato fruit cake and one for potato orange loaf. I haven't tried them in years but I used to think they were great. If anyone is interested in the recipes let me know. Val
Funny, I just came across this recipe:
http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/ShowRecipe.aspx?rid=13841
Everything old is new again......
Funny, I just came across this recipe:
http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/ShowRecipe.aspx?rid=13841
Everything old is new again......
I'm so glad to hear that Janh...I'm facing my 54th birthday soon... 
You made my day. 
Denise
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