Cashewnut Cake

Cashewnut Cake

My stay in Mtwara gave me a lot of time of creations especially in the month of Ramadhan. Fortunately I did fast one time in the season of cashewnuts and the following cake, I did prepare for my wife.

Ingredients

• 100 gms. butter
• 250 gms. sugar
• 4 eggs
• 150 gms. grounded cashew nuts
• 200 gms boiled cold pressed sweet potatoes.

Method

• Mix the softened butter until white and fluffy.
• Add the egg yolks one at a time and mix thoroughly.
• Mix in the cashewnuts and the sweet potatoes.
• Beat the egg whites untill stiif, fold them into the mixture with care ( do not use whisk when mixing ).
• Pour into a well greased and breadcrumbed baking tin.
• Bake for about 50 minutes at 175 degrees.
• Let the cake rest for a while in its baking tin.

Serve the cake with lightly whipped cream after 'the futari'.

Bon Apetite.

Benn Haidari