Sweet Potato and Walnut Cake
This cake falls somewhere in between sweet and savoury with just the right amount of sticky texture. It is the perfect base for enjoying the delicious raspberry and apple jam.
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If you or one of your guests is not so fond of ginger, simply leave it out.
This cake requires a few baking skills, like whisking egg whites. Read through the recipe and decide if you're up for it!
Most recipes in this Christmas Menu can easily be made fully plant-based. For this one, we didn't try it out with egg-substitutes, so we cannot guarantee it will succeed. If you do want to give it a go and decide to try it, let us know how it went.
Bake the cake the day before.
Take the cake with you as a whole. Slice, add spread and rocket at your destination.
Necessities
besides regular cooking and frying pans, and cutting knives
Cake form
Spatula
Baking paper
Hand mixer
Hand blender
Ingredients
6 servings - 12 slices
200 g
85 g
1 jar
125 g
100 g
Sweet potatoes
Rocket
Raspberry apple jam (Yespers)
Walnuts
Flour
3
15 g
7 g
50 g
1 TBL sp
Eggs
Ginger
Baking powder
(Plant-based) milk
Sugar
Prep
10 min
- Grate or mince ginger
- Peel sweet potato and cut into 1 cm thick slices
- Line cake form with baking paper
- Preheat oven to 190°C
Cook
35 min + 30 min oven
Cook sweet potato
use a large pan ~10 min, drain afterwards and let it cool down
In the meantime, split egg whites and egg yolks in two bowls
use a small one for the yolks and a big one for the whites, put whites aside
Mix yolks with sugar
add a pinch of salt
Add walnuts and ginger and blend into a paste
save a handful of walnuts for later, use a hand blender or food processor
Add yolks to sweet potato paste
mix well
Add milk
mix well
Beat the egg whites until stiff
use a hand mixer ~5 min
In another bowl, mix flour and baking powder
use a spatula to keep it airy/fluffy
Add 1 TBL sp of flour mix and fold through until combined
use a spatula to keep it airy/fluffy
Repeat both previous steps - one after the other - until everything is mixed
Add remaining walnuts
fold through
Add cake mix to cake form
Bake cake
~30 min at 200°C
test with a toothpick whether it’s done (it should come out clean)
Let the cake cool down a little before serving with rocket and Yespers raspberry apple jam
Thanks so much for joining our journey. We wish you a Merry Christmas with your loved ones!
As Christmas is often associated with meat, we’re very curious to learn what you and your guests, friends, family think about this meatless menu.
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