Potato Cake Recipe
What is a Potato Cake?
A potato cake recipe is usually made from deep-fried potatoes that have been thinly sliced or mashed. They originated in the eastern European countries of Germany Austria, Russia, and Poland as peasant food.
Potatoes were cheap, plentiful, and easy to store, making them a staple and necessitating inventive potato recipes. Simply toast and butter for a quick and easy filling snack or breakfast. Serve as soldiers with boiled eggs or with a full cooked meal for an unusual breakfast treat or for a filling snack or quick and easy meal on the run, top with baked beans and cheese. When toasting, toast to a light golden brown.
If you want to stay as close as possible to the original and traditional way, serve your potato cake recipe with applesauce and/ or sour cream.
Potato Cake Recipe: History
Potato Cake Recipe: Differences Around the World
As it happens with almost every single recipe and even common words for common objects, each English-speaking country has adopted and their own term and its own way of preparing the potato cake. For instance, in parts of England and America, a potato cake is a patty of mashed potatoes, a kind of hash brown. These are available both fresh and frozen in supermarkets and are served by many restaurants, such as fast-food restaurants like McDonald's and Whataburger, often as part of the breakfast menu. The term can also refer to a sort of potato pancake.
Another variant popular in the United Kingdom is prepared from cold mashed potatoes and fresh eggs. The two ingredients are combined, then fried until crisp on the outside.
Potato Cake Recipe: Potato Cake vs Potato Scallops
As already said before, the term and recipe vary from state to state as same as from country to country. For example, people from Queensland and Western Australia prefer to call the recipe scallops. However, the main difference between a potato cake and a potato scallop, that not everyone knows is that a potato cake is a mashed potato fried fritter, while a scallop is a deep-fried battered slice of potato.
In addition, scalloped potatoes got their name from the Old English word “collop” which means “to slice thinly” while au gratin potatoes got its name from the French words “grater” and “gratin” which means “to scrape” and “crust or skin,” respectively.
Now that you know some interesting facts about the origin of the potato cake, it’s time to learn how to prepare your own. Who knows, you might even come up with a new recipe that will be a success among your family members.
If you want to prepare your own potato cake at home, choose one of the following potato cake recipes and follow the instructions.
Potato Cake Recipe #1 = Simple Potato Cake
This potato cake recipe is great to serve for any meal or even as a snack. It’s simple and quick to make with only a few ingredients.
Preparation: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total: 20 minutes
Servings: 4
Ingredients
2 cups mashed potatoes,
1 cup all-purpose flour,
1 onion, diced,
1 egg,
½ teaspoon ground black pepper,
½ teaspoon salt,
½ cup vegetable oil, or as needed.
Method
Mix mashed potatoes, flour, onion, egg, black pepper, and salt together in a bowl until batter consistency.
Heat vegetable oil in a skillet over medium heat. Drop 4-inch circles of batter into the hot oil. Cook until golden brown, about 5 minutes per side. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Repeat with the remaining batter.
Potato Cake Recipe #2 Irish Potato Cake
This potato cake recipe is an Irish traditional recipe, perfect to serve with the fruit of your choice.
Preparation: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 1h 30 minutes
Total: 1h 50 minutes
Servings: 12
Ingredients
⅔ cup shortening,
2 cups white sugar,
2 eggs,
¾ cup milk,
2 cups all-purpose flour,
2 teaspoons baking powder,
⅛ teaspoon salt,
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon,
2 teaspoons ground cloves,
2 teaspoons ground nutmeg,
2 cups mashed cooked potatoes,
1 cup chopped walnuts,
1 cup raisins.
Method
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan. Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Add the flour mixture alternately with the potatoes and milk. Stir in nuts and raisins.
Pour into a 10-inch Bundt pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 90 to 120 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
Potato Cake Recipe #3 = Vegan Sweet Potato Cake
This sweet potato cake smells like autumn thanks to cinnamon and cloves and just happens to be vegan. The secret to the depth of flavour might be the coffee, but the result does not taste like a coffee-flavoured cake.
Preparation: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Additional Time: 30 Minutes
Total: 1h 5 minutes
Servings: 12
Ingredients:
2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour,
1 cup white sugar,
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon,
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder,
½ teaspoon salt,
¼ teaspoon ground cloves,
1 ¾ cups cooled coffee,
¾ cup olive oil,
¼ cup sweet potato puree,
1 cup confectioners' sugar, or more as needed,
1 tablespoon orange juice, or more as needed,
1 teaspoon vanilla extract,
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon.
Method
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan.
Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, salt, and cloves in a bowl and mix well. Add cooled coffee, oil, and sweet potato puree; mix well. Pour batter evenly into the prepared baking pan.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove and allow to cool on a wire rack, about 30 minutes.
Stir together 1 cup confectioners' sugar, 1 tablespoon orange juice, vanilla extract, and cinnamon in a bowl. Add more sugar or orange juice, if needed, to achieve your desired consistency. Drizzle icing over the top of the cooled cake.
