Sue'S Mashed Potato Cocoa Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 c. butter or margarine
2 c. sugar
4 eggs, separated
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 c. hot mashed potatoes
1/8 tsp. salt
1 1/3 c. milk
2 c. plain flour, sifted
1/2 c. cocoa
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. broken nut meats

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350\u00b0.
Cream butter and beat in sugar.
Then add beaten egg yolks, vanilla, mashed potatoes and cocoa.
Sift together cinnamon, salt, flour and baking powder.
Add dry ingredients to butter mixture, alternately with milk.
Add nut meats.
Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into mixture.
Bake in a flat cake pan for 50 minutes or until done.
Cool and frost with fudge frosting.