As with many recipes for potatoes, potato cake recipes can give you a main dish, a side dish, or a dessert. They are often combined with flour, eggs and a small amount of cream, and then fried in butter as a delicious but high-calorie accompaniment to a meal. Either white or sweet potatoes can be used, and the addition of some Cajun seasonings such as cayenne can give your meal a taste of New Orleans.

A shredded or mashed potato can be combined with other vegetables, such as corn or creamed corn, to make really tasty cakes. Serve them with sausages or ham for a German or country style dinner.

Chocolate cakes also have mashed potatoes as their ingredient, they give them a wonderful, dense moist texture. A sweet potato can be used in a white chocolate or spice cake recipe with the same results.

Peanut butter chocolate potato cake is also another perennial favorite and especially appealing to the younger set, although most of them don’t need to be convinced to eat cake.

The use of potatoes in cake recipes is a good way to add richness to a cake, yet reduce the fats and calories that come from butter and/or sour cream. Some of the best recipes can be found here below:

• Swiss Potato Cake with Onion
  A hash brown cake popular in Zürich, a German-speaking country. You could find this cake practically in every dinner table in Zürich as part of a fulfilling Swiss meal.
• Salmon Potato Cakes Recipe
  Deliciously thick potato cakes with a seafood touch. These are not just delicious; these potato cakes are heavy and healthy! No need for side dishes!
• Mashed Potato Cakes Recipe with Blue cheese
  This is another great way to use leftover mashed potatoes, to make these into an exceptional potato cake with blue cheese and panko. Panko gives this potato cake a light crunchy crust.
• Irish Potato Cake Recipe from Scratch
  This is an easy traditional Irish recipe. It ends up into a delicious potato cake that has a nice crunchy crust and soft inside when served hot out of the pan. With a little butter, the taste is such a delight!
• Chocolate potato cake recipe
  Moist potato cake filled with melted chocolates. You won’t believe how delicious potatoes and chocolates could be when baked into a cake.
• Fully Loaded Potato skin Cakes
  You won’t believe these fully loaded potato skins that can even be tastier than real cakes. With so much meat and cheese in them, your stomachs will be more than satisfied after eating these fully loaded potato skin cakes.
• Omelet Potato Cakes Recipe from Scratch
  These crispy potato cakes could be your ideal side dish for breakfast, lunch and dinner. These taste real good especially with bacon, eggs and when toasted with jelly.
• Fish Potato Cakes
  A great way to use leftover fish fillets and mashed potatoes is to make these into potato cakes. The end results are explicitly tasty and suits your low fat diet!
• Buttered Potato Griddle Cakes Recipe
  Delicious Potato Griddle Cake is another childhood favorite. This can go real good with bacons and lingonberry jam! These fried potato cakes are topped with butter that melts into your mouth.
• Cheddar Potato Cake Recipe
  Easy home- made potato cake that is layered with cheese and topped with butter. The large amount of cheddar cheese added makes this potato cake irresistible and mouthwatering.