Apple Rice Cooker Cake

Ease:: Simple
Serves:: 4-5
Prep time:: 25 minutes
Cook time:: 45 minutes
Total time:: 70 minutes

Find out just what your rice cooker is capable of with this delicious apple rice cooker cake recipe. By creatively utilising hot cake mix, sweet potato, and the slow-cooking nature of a rice cooker, this fluffy, sweet cake is easy to prepare and even easier to cook; just turn the rice cooker on and let it handle the rest. We recommend that this cake is enjoyed as soon as it is ready, preferrably with a scoop of ice cream.

Ingredients

200g hotcake mix

1/5 sweet potato

150ml milk

1 egg

4 tbsp oil

4 tbsp sugar

1 apple

butter

Method

Prepare the apples: Peel, core and slice 1 apple. Cook with butter in a saucepan for 15 - 20 minutes until soften and slightly brown at the edge.

Prepare the sweet potato: Cut 1/5 sweet potato into small-sized cubes and soak in water for 5-10 minutes.

Prepare the batter: In a bowl, mix 200g hotcake mix, 150ml milk, 1 egg, 4 tbsp oil and 4 tbsp sugar. Add the sweet potato to the bowl and mix.

Layer the bottom of the rice cooker with the cooked slices of apples: Pour the batter into the buttered cooker bowl on top of the apple slices and switch the cooker on to a regular white rice setting.

Serve and enjoy: Take rice cooker out of machine when the cake is finished cooking and allow the cake to cool in the bowl before removing. Enjoy with cream, custard or a scoop of ice cream.