Molka Cake with Penuche Frosting
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Serves: 8-10
 
Ingredients
  • Molka Cake:
  • 1½ cup sugar
  • 1 c butter or crisco (I prefer butter)
  • 4 T cocoa
  • 1½ cup mashed potato (russet) - boiled and pushed through a mesh strainer
  • 1 c buttermilk
  • 1 tsp. baking soda (in buttermilk)
  • 4 eggs, separated
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • ½ cup golden raisins
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts
  • Penuche Frosting: (recipe adapted to make 1½ quantity)
  • ¾ cup butter
  • 1½ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup + ⅛ cup whole milk
  • 2¾ - 3 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
  1. Molka Cake:
  2. In a sauce pan over medium heat, bring 2 russet potatoes to a boil and cook until very tender ( I cut in half and this will be a little more than you need for cake). Drain, cool, then put through mesh strainer and measure out 1½ cups.
  3. Turn oven onto 350 and grease and flour 2 cake pans.
  4. In a mixer, combine sugar and butter (or crisco) until light and fluffy, about 10 min.
  5. Add in the cocoa and potato and mix well.
  6. Add egg yolks and mix well.
  7. Pour milk into glass measuring cup and add soda and mix.
  8. Combine all dry ingredients in a bowl.
  9. Add the dry and wet ingredients, alternating between flour mixture and buttermilk mixture (start and finish with flour). Mix for 15 minutes or so.
  10. In a separate bowl, whip egg whites until stiff. Fold into batter.
  11. Add nuts and raisins and fold in.
  12. Pour mixture evenly between both cake pans.
  13. Cook for 30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
  14. Penuche Frosting:
  15. Over medium heat on stove in a saucepan, melt butter.
  16. Stir in brown sugar and bring to boil and stir over heat for 2 minutes.
  17. Add milk and bring to boil stirring constantly.
  18. Cool to lukewarm and gradually mix in powdered sugar until spreadable frosting.
  19. *Note - Cake is easier to frost if it has been frozen and frosted frozen. Put in fridge til ready to serve.
Recipe by Eatentions at https://www.eatentions.com/molka-cake-with-penuche-frosting/