Chocolate Sponge Cake. Set another cake layer on top, and repeat process with remaining simple syrup, frosting, and cake layers. Frost top and sides of cake in a swirling motion. Try these cakes using this Chocolate Sponge Cake: Chocolate Kiev Cake - Sponge cake with layers of walnuts, meringue and dulce de leche.; Prague Cake - Chocolate sponge cake with a chocolate custard buttercream.; Marble Cake - Chocolate and yellow sponge cake with cherry juice and a sour cream frosting.
Line the pan with parchment paper and then butter and flour the paper (or spray with vegetable/flour spray. Butter paper and sides of pan; dust with cocoa powder, tapping out excess. Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. You can have Chocolate Sponge Cake using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Chocolate Sponge Cake
- You need 3 of large eggs.
- Prepare 1 1/2 Tablespoon of melted butter, let cool until almost to room temperature.
- It's 2 Tablespoon of milk.
- It's 2 Tablespoon of sugar.
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
- It's 1/3 cup of cake flour.
- You need 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder.
- Prepare 1 1/2 Tablespoon of coco powder.
Put the cocoa powder and boiling water into a large bowl and mix well to make a paste. This is the worse chocolate sponge cake recipe I have ever tried,With my old recipe my cake puffs up almost above the edge of the pan , I thought I would give this recipe a try.regardless of how gentle I mixed the flour into the egg mix I still ended with a heavy batter and my cake didn't raise at all . 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.
Chocolate Sponge Cake instructions
- Crack 3 eggs. Put the egg whites in a mixing bowl and egg yolks in a large bowl..
- To the egg yolks, add in the cooled butter, milk, sugar, and vanilla extract and mix until well combined. Sieve the cake flour, baking powder, and coco powder and whisk to combine the wet and dry ingredients to form a thick batter..
- In the meantime, use the electric mixer (or a whisk) to beat the egg whites until it can form a stiff peak. When done, pour this fluffy egg whites into the batter and gently combine them together with a spatula until it is almost homogenous..
- Lightly grease the ramekins and put them inside the fryer basket. Preheat the air fryer at 400F (200C) for about 2 minutes..
- Scoop the batter into the preheated ramekins and air fry at 280F (150C) for about 10-12 minutes, until the toothpick comes out clean..
The eggs are beaten well to give a fluffy, soft & aerated texture to the cake. There are a few different methods used to make sponge cakes across the world. The method shown in this post is simple to follow. This cake uses ground almonds to replace the wheat flour usually found in cakes. When preparing the almonds, a hand grinder is preferable to a food processor or blender because electric machines bring out the oil in nuts.