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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chocolate sponge cake (sokolatopita) using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita):
- Take Syrup:
- Make ready 1 cup water
- Prepare 250 grams Butter
- Get 1 1/2 cup Sugar
- Prepare 3/4 cups Cocoa
- Get 1/2 cup Cognac (optional)
- Get 2 tablespoons Vanilla powder extract or liquid
- Get Sprinkles (optional)
- Take Cake batter:
- Take 1 1/2 cups All purpose flour
- Prepare 4 Eggs
- Take 2 teaspoons Baking powder
- Take 1 pinch Salt
Chocolate sponge cake - Light, fluffy & soft chocolate sponge cake that makes a good base for decorated or frosted cakes. Sponge cakes are usually made of eggs, fats, flour & sugar. The eggs are beaten well to give a fluffy, soft & aerated texture to the cake. There are a few different methods used.
Steps to make Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita):
- In a large sauce pan melt butter, sugar, cocoa, water.
- In a large bowl add the flour, baking power, salt and eggs. Beat nicely and set aside.
- Before pouring syrup into the batter, set aside 1 small cup of syrup. Pour syrup very slowly and mix.
- Stir cake batter and add in the Vanilla extract.
- Pour in Cognac. Pour batter into a buttered baking pan, and bake for 25 minutes at 180 degrees.
- This cake will not rise like the normal sponge cake, this is a bit flatter, buttt two pieces one on top of the other will absolutely do the trick, as you can see in the picture. 🙂 The cup of syrup that was set aside you can use to pour onto each piece as an added addition, I added sprinkles on this piece 🙂 Hope you enjoy this recipe!!! Kali Orexi!!! 🙂
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