Chocolate potato cake from Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s (page 54) by B. Dylan Hollis

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  • sarahkalsbeek on April 15, 2026

    Made this with half of a leftover baked potato and it actually worked pretty well! (The recipe calls for boiling and mashing the potato). The cake is delicious on its own, almost like a banana bread but obviously without the banana flavor. The frosting is totally unnecessary and overwhelming. Like the other reviewer, mine was grainy, but that wasn't even the main issue. It was just way too sweet. I scraped it off and enjoyed the cake plain!

  • hnordhed on November 28, 2023

    Made this recipe using my leftover mashed potatoes from Thanksgiving dinner. The Cake was moist and the texture was excellent, much less dense than I expected. The flavor was very good too. I need to be more patient making the icing next time, since I apparently didn't beat it enough and it was very grainy. But the icing was full of fudgy flavor!

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