Potato Chocolate Cake

I found a new baking book and I'm in love with it.

I find that most cake books have similar recipes and I'm lucky if I can find one or two things I want to bake out of each book.

This one, however, is different.

I found so many recipes that I'm intrigued by, I have post it notes sticking out of all over the book.

Now I'm beginning to think that I would actually have to purchase this book as I can not bear the thought of returning it to the library.

The books is, Belinda Jeffery's Mix and Bake.

So many of her recipes are different to the standard cakes and slices.

This chocolate cake I baked today was inspired from this book.

 I am incapable of following a recipe, I did change it here and there.  For example, I used brown sugar rather than castor sugar.  I used more cocoa because I love really chocolaty chocolate cake.  I blitzed chocolate in the food processor instead of grating it.  The smallest potato I found in my pantry was heavier than specified in the recipe, but I wasn't going to waste 30g of potato.  

The result is a luscious chocolate cake.  

My daughter who said that she was not prepared to eat a cake that has a potato in it quickly changed her mind when I presented it to her and her friend who is spending a day with us today.  

Yes, we are blessed with a perpetual shrieking happy bubbly chatter in the background ALL DAY.