Cake #72 - Potato and Bacon Pancake

Savoury Saturday Cake - Potato and Bacon Pancake.

Mashed potato can sometimes be endless. Luckily in our family it very rarely is but when it is, there is plenty of it. Leftovers, that is. The reason for it can be The Husband by accident peeling too many potatoes (unlike me he does not mind peeling potatoes - I would never-ever peel even one too many) but nowadays more often the reason is the teenagers of the family being elsewhere at dinner time. Elsewhere - like out for dinner with their boy/girlfriends and telling us five minutes before dinner is ready: "BTW I'm not eating home tonight".

On Saturday we had, for one reason or another - probably both - loads of leftover mash. Earlier that week I had already baked bread of previous leftover mash so I wanted to make something else like... cake? Why not. 

Ages ago I had made small potato pancakes on a crepe pan. This giant one I baked in the oven in a springform cake pan. We enjoyed it for Saturday evening snack and the few leftover slices for Sunday brunch. Without the bacon it would go well with jam, too, as a semi-sweet snack. Worth trying - as it is easy and a very affordable dish, too.

Potato and Bacon Pancake

300 ml mashed potatoes

250 ml milk

2 eggs

250 ml plain flour

½ tsp salt

50 g butter, melted

100g chopped and cooked bacon

1. Preheat the oven 225 C / 430 F and grease a Ø 30 cm springform cake pan.

2. Separate egg whites from yolks.

3. Beat egg yolks until fluffy.

4. Add milk, flour, salt and melted butter to the beaten egg yolks and mix well to make a smooth batter.

5. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold carefully into the batter.

6. Pour the batter into the cake pan, then sprinkle the chopped bacon on top,

7. Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.

8. Enjoy warm with salad, baked beans...