Sweet potato cake (Satsuma-imo Cake) from the rice cooker

Time for another cake made by the rice cooker! Our previous chocolate cake recipe was a big success, so this time we want to share another favourite of our cake recipes. Again it is very easy to make in the rice cooker.

This recipe is for Japanese sweet potato (satsuma-imo) cake. We have already posted several dinner recipes made with satsuma-imo (sweet potato rice & steamed sweet potato), but it's sweet taste makes it an excellent ingredient for cake too.



Ingredients (makes a cake with approximately 19cm diameter, and 3 cm height):

• 125 gr flour
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 50 ml (coleseed) oil
• 100 ml milk
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 satsuma-imo 

 Mix the flour, eggs, sugar, oil, milk, and baking powder together until the batter is smooth. Cut the sweet potato in small pieces, and add to the batter, then mix together.

Sweet potato cut into small pieces

Sweet potato cake batter in the rice cooker pan

Put the batter in your rice cooker, and make sure the potato pieces are evenly divided. Put the rice cooker on cake-modus, and turn on for 30 minutes.

After the rice cooker has finished, wait until the pan and the cake have cooled down. Then you can turn over the pan and with a little shake the cake will come out perfectly.

Finished Sweet potato cake

The cake will be a little heavy, but that makes it also perfect to enjoy at a picnic or put in a bento box.

(recap from last cake recipe: No need to grease the rice cooker-pan, it already has (should have) a very good anti-stick layer and the cake will come out easily. Our rice cooker has a cake option in the menu, which will ask for the amount of time you want to cook your cake. All rice cookers are probably different, so check the options in the manual. Apparently, you may even be able to make cake in a rice cooker with only an on-button, but we haven't tried that so we can't say anything about it.)