There are recipes all over the Internet for "sand cake." Most of them
use something else to mimic the potato starch which isn't as readily
available as corn starch and cake flour. I'll bet if you kept paging
through recipes you'd find one that uses potato starch. I've never made
or had sand cake myself, but I'm familiar with sable cookies which have
that close grain you're talking about.

http://www.freerecipe.org/Dessert/Ba...recipe-cdr.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~knappt/recipes/025.html
http://www.mindspring.com/~cborgnaes...l#Pound%20Cake
http://www.floras-hideout.com/recipe...andy_Sand_Cake

--Lia

Franfogel wrote:
> Does anyone know of a cake called Sand Cake or Sand Torte? It is, I believe,
> Polish in origin and is made with potato starch, which gives the cake a very
> fine, close grain. Google didn't help a great deal! Thanks.
>
> Fran