Sweet Potato and Walnut Cake

Pestonudeln mit Spinat
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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
Zutaten
6 servings – 12 slices
200 g85 g
1 jar
125 g
100 g Sweet potatoes
Rucola
Raspberry apple jam (Yespers)
Walnüsse
Flour 3
15 g
7 g
50 g
1 TBL sp Eggs
Ingwer
Baking powder
(Plant-based) milk
Zucker
Vorbereitung
10 min
- Ingwer fein hacken oder reiben
- Peel sweet potato and cut into 1 cm thick slices
- Line cake form with baking paper
- Preheat oven to 190°C
Kochen
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
gut mischen
Add milk
gut mischen
Beat the egg whites until stiff
use a hand mixer ~5 min
In another bowl, mix flour and baking powder
Add 1 TBL sp of stiff egg whites and fold through until combined
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 auf 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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