Sweet Potato Cake

[Blue Wren]

Could someone please be so kind and convert this original recipe I have. I'm a new Thermomix owner and not too certain how it
would read in Thermomix language yet. Sweet Potato Cake
Ingredients - 200g sweet potato, grated,  1 orange, juice and grated rind,  1/2 cup vegetable oil,  3/4 cup non-fat
milk,  1 egg, lightly beaten,  1 cup SR flour,  1 cup wholemeal SR flour,  1 tspn nutmeg,  1/2 tspn ground ginger,  1/2 cup
raw sugar, 1/2 cup sultanas.  Method - Mix sweet potato, orange juice and rind, oil, milk and egg. Combine remaining
ingredients and pour in lightly greased loaf pan. Bake at 180 deg for approx 1 hr or until cooked. Turn out to cool on wire
rack.
Hope others want to try it too as it's delicious!
Blue Wren

[cathy79]

Hi Blue Wren and welcome.

When I'm not sure about how to convert a recipe, I always look at other recipes as a guide.

This one should be straight forward, as there is only two steps in the original.

Chop your sweet potato, aiming for a similar size piece to what you've used before.  I'd use speed 5 for 2 seconds at a time until it looks right.

Then I'd toss in orange juice and rind, oil, milk and egg.  Mix together, then add everything else in and mix Reverse (don't chop the sultanas) using a speed the same as any cake or muffin recipe uses to mix the ingredients together.

Hope this helps - it's a good recipe for your first conversion.

[judydawn]

Hi Blue Wren, welcome to the forum.  I decided to have a go at this recipe as I had almost everything on hand to make it.  I have substituted items I didn't have.
Peel and chop 200g sweet potato roughly.  Place in TM bowl and chop 3 sec/speed 7, use a spatula to clean down the sides of the bowl then chop for a further 2 sec/speed 7.
I added the zest of the orange (used my zester but if you don't have one you could add the thinly sliced peel in with the sweet potato in the first step) juice of the orange, 100g rice brown oil in lieu of vegetable oil, 160g skim milk, 1 whole egg, 160g S.R flour, 150g wholemeal plain flour + 2 tspns baking powder (in lieu of wholemeal S.R. flour), 1 tspn nutmeg, 1/2 tspn ground ginger, 100g raw sugar, 70g sultanas.
Mix for 30 seconds on speed 5, Reverse speed.
Poured into a greased and lined 10 x 20cm loaf tin and it is in the oven right now.  I have set the timer for 1 hour at 180^oC as per your directions.

Will get back to you later tonight to report how it went.

[judydawn]

The cake turned out fine Blue Wren, just had a slice whilst still warm with butter on it. Cooked it for an hour exactly, left to sit in the tin for 10 minutes before upending onto a wire rack to cool.

[cathy79]

Wow that's service Judy, conversion and review for the price of one.

[judydawn]

    I had just said goodbye to the family and had turned the computer on to relax and enjoy the peace and quiet Cathy. This recipe grabbed me and it just proves how little effort is required to whip up a cake even when you would think it was the last thing you would want to do after a hectic day.

[Thermomixer]

Welcome Blue Wren and congrats JD - sounds good to me.  You are a real veteran now. 

[Blue Wren]

Thanks ladies for the advice in converting my recipe. Sorry not to reply sooner
but have had all sorts of things to deal with since posting my query. I appreciate
all the help I can get in using my Thermomix to the max. Think I'll make this
cake to share with workmates tomorrow.