Milky Purple Sweet Potato Cake

Overview

Homemade dream souvenir, milky purple sweet potato cake. Beautiful pink-purple color, cute pre-meal afternoon pastry, has recently become a popular product in my family. It was inspired by the popular souvenir purple sweet potato tart that my cousin brought to Japan not long ago. Purple sweet potato is a very common food. My mother often prepares steamed purple sweet potato as a staple food for breakfast. It left me with the impression that it has many benefits, but the taste is very dry and makes me choke. I ate the purple sweet potato tart brought from Japan this time. It has a delicate texture, sweet but not greasy, and it wiped away my bad impression of purple sweet potato. Homemade purple sweet potato cake can be refrigerated and eaten as a pastry, or it can be modified into purple sweet potato filling. It is a good choice for making bread and moon cake fillings. It will have different flavors when eaten hot or cold. The purple sweet potato puree is very soft when eaten hot, with a delicate and smooth texture. After being refrigerated, it becomes hard because of the butter, and it feels more like a mung bean cake. Purple sweet potato itself is pink-purple, but it will become darker after being heated and processed. The anthocyanins have a lively character and will change color under the influence of many factors. The secret to the beauty of this purple potato cake lies in lemon juice, because anthocyanins will turn pink when exposed to acid, and turn blue when exposed to alkali. After adding lemon juice, the color of the purple sweet potato puree will change and turn into a very beautiful pink-purple.

Tags

• pastries
• old man
• mid-autumn festival
• butter
• honey
• milk powder
• purple sweet potato
• whole milk
• lemon juice
• powdered sugar

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare some purple potatoes, peel them and cut them into slices. Steam them in a steamer over high heat for about 6 minutes. Take out the steamed purple potatoes and cut them into slices for easier steaming

   

2. 2 Put the crushed purple sweet potato into a plastic bag and beat it with a rolling pin. Pour the crushed purple sweet potato into the bread machine, add milk, and mix well with a spoon. The milk will be quickly absorbed by the purple sweet potato. Check the dryness and wetness to increase the amount of milk appropriately, then add powdered sugar (or add honey later)

   

3. 3 Start bread machine jam mode

   

4. 4 Mix the purple sweet potato puree evenly and add butter cut into small pieces. The more butter, the more fragrant it will be. You can adjust the amount appropriately

   

5. 5 Add small pieces of butter

   

6. 6 Add another three tablespoons of milk powder

   

7. 7 Pour in lemon juice, the purple potato puree will change color immediately, stir evenly

   

8. 8 After heating and stir-frying for about 1 hour, the jam function is completed. You can choose to end the process early or increase the time according to the humidity of the purple sweet potato puree. Take about 30g of the purple sweet potato puree, form it into a small ball and emboss it with a mooncake mold. It will taste better after being refrigerated