Recipe: Irish Potato Cakes, Irish Pound Cake, Irish Apple Cake

Hi Debbie -- Good for you for honoring this young person's food needs. Here are a few recipes you might look at. The Irish Potato Cakes call for making the mashed potatoes using milk, but you could certainly make them without milk.

IRISH POTATO CAKES

1/4 cup butter
6 to 8 ounces all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3 cups freshly mashed potatoes (with milk)

Cut butter into flour until it forms large granules. Add salt and baking powder, mix well. Mix in potatoes. Knead for a few minutes.

Roll out onto lightly floured board with floured rolling pin. Cut into 2 rounds.

Cook on a dry griddle or skillet until brown on both sides.

Makes 2 potato cakes
Source: Aine McManus

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Posted by Patty-North Ga. Mountains 1-27-1999

IRISH POUND CAKE

1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
1 cup golden raisins
3 tablespoons Irish Mist Liqueur
1 cup butter
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
4 eggs
2 cups sifted cake flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla

In a small bowl marinate lemon peel and raisins in Irish Mist. Cream butter and sugar in mixing bowl until light and fluffy; add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift cake flour with salt and baking powder. Remove raisins and lemon peel with slotted spoon; transfer to small bowl tossing with small amount of flour mixture. Pour any remaining liqueur and vanilla into eggs. Add flour gradually; beating only until blended. Mix in raisins. Spoon into greased 9 by 5 -inch loaf pan that is bottom lined with greased waxed paper. Bake in preheated 325 degree oven 1 hour and 10 minutes or until toothpick tests clean. Remove to cooling rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan; remove waxed paper and cool. May be sprinkled with confectioners sugar before serving.

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Irish Apple Cake ( Low-Fat)
Posted by Juanita/Carolina 8-10-1998

(Notes by Juanita) I stumbled across this recipe last year from our Electric Co-op cookbooks. A very good, fairly moist cake that kicks the sweet cravings, with very little fat. Made the alterations in the recipe. Hope you enjoy!

1 c. applesauce
2 c. sugar (or less if you don't like things quite so sweet)
1/2 c. Egg-Beaters (or the equivalent to 2 eggs with any other substitute)
1 tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. cinnamon
4 c. peeled and diced apples
1 c. nuts (which if you want it low-fat you need to omit-I've heard people say to use crushed pretzels for the same affect--haven't tried that one, but I just left the nuts out)
about 1/2 c. butterscotch morsels

Cream applesauce, sugar, egg sub, and vanilla. Combine flour, salt, baking powder, and cinnamon. Add to creamed mixture and mix well. Add apples. Fold in nuts or nut substitutes. Pour into well sprayed 9x13x2 inch pan. Sprinkle butterscotch chips evenly over top; do not mix into the cake. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes, or till tests done