This chocolate cake is made with potato and rice instead of eggs and flour

From Red Online

Baking is well-known to help ease anxiety and restore calm, plus it means that you get to eat something delicious at the end.

However, the absence of eggs (and often flour) in the supermarkets during the COVID-19 lockdown means that our baking intentions are thwarted at the first hurdle.

But all is not lost, because lockdown hero and baking extraordinaire, Rosie Brandreth-Poynter (aka a contestant on series 10 of the Great British Bake-Off) has raided her cupboard and come up with an ingenious chocolate cake recipe that needs neither ingredients to reach its full potential.

Uploading the recipe to her website, Rosie & Ralph Bake, Rosie said: ‘Buying eggs and flour in March 2020 is near impossible, yet chocolate cake can bring a little joy to these scary and bleak times. ‘Here is a way to turn potatoes (any kind) and rice (any kind) into a rich, moist chocolate cake. Magic!’

You can make the cake vegan with oat milk and marge instead of butter, or use whatever sugar you have around without worrying. It’s also gluten-free.

Here are the ingredients as listed on Rosie’s website:

300g potatoes (peeled, boiled, mashed and cooled)

200g dried, uncooked rice (I used a mix of basmati and sushi rice as that’s what I had!) 250ml milk (or oat milk)

2 tablespoons lemon juice

60g cocoa powder

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon instant coffee or ½ teaspoon orange extract or zest of 2 oranges (optional)

¼ teaspoon salt

170g margarine/butter

350g caster sugar/any sugar (granulated, demerara, soft brown…whatever you have!)

1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)

The rice is put into a blender or food processor until it’s powdery, and the lemon juice is added to the milk so it separates. It all seems very weird at first, but once you merge the butter or margarine with the mashed potato and add the other ingredients, you’ll see a form of cake mixture coming together.

Once you bake at 160C for an hour, you should have a moist and delicious chocolate cake that no one would ever know was made of the humble potato.

And we thought getting enough vegetables in would be hard!

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