Chocolate sponge cake - Wikipedia Commons
Simple and delicious recipe for baking chocolate sponge cake - creates a rich chocolate cake, with a light sponge and chocolate butter icing filling.
This is not a ten minute recipe for baking chocolate cake – nor is the cake wheat-free, gluten-free or suitable for any calorie controlled diet. It is, however, all worth it for the best chocolate cake the family will ever scoff.
Chocolate Sponge Cake Ingredients
Chocolate Sponge Cake
- 6 ounces butter or margarine
- 6 ounces caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 6 ounces self-raising flour (minus three tablespoons: replace into flour bag)
- 3 level tablespoons of cocoa powder
Chocolate Butter Filling
- 8 ounces icing sugar
- 4 ounces butter or margarine
- 1 level tablespoon of cocoa powder
Equipment
- 2 x 7” sandwich tins
- 2 x large bowls, suitable for mixing
- Oven (standard or fan)
- Spoons etc
- Greasing paper or kitchen roll
Baking a Chocolate Cake
Preliminaries
- Beat the eggs together well in a bowl or large mug.
- Grease both of the sandwich tins with margarine or butter, using greaseproof paper or kitchen roll.
Mixing and Baking
- Beat the sugar and the butter together in the bowl until creamy.
- Add the eggs into the mixture gradually, along with a little of the flour.
- Add the three tablespoons of cocoa powder to the remaining flour. Thoroughly sift the mixture through a sieve into the second bowl.
- Fold the sifted cocoa and flour into the first mixture (the sugar, butter, eggs and pinch of flour).
- Divide the mixture equally into the two cake tins, smoothing it gently with a knife so that it lies flat.
- Cook for 20 minutes at 190 degrees celsius (375 degrees fahrenheit) or at gas mark 5.
Chocolate Butter Filling
Preliminaries
- Add a little bit of boiling hot water to the cocoa powder. Stir the mixture (preferably with a metal spoon) and allow it to cool.
- Sift the icing sugar through a sieve into a bowl.
- Whisk the butter or margarine until it is creamy.
Mixing
- Gradually add the icing sugar to the butter. When this is done, slowly add the liquid cocoa powder to the mixture. Mix together to create the chocolate filling (make sure the ingredients are mixed well and evening).
- When the sponges have cooled, lather the chocolate filling evenly over the top of one sponge. Carefully place the other sponge on top of the filling, creating a sandwich.
- Wipe away any remaining filling from the side of the cake.
- Sprinkle a pinch of caster sugar over the top of the cake and serve.
Alternative Cake Decorations
Alternatively, if the cake is baked for an occasion, it can be iced with chocolate icing and decorated. For those who do not feel that there is enough chocolate in this case, double the quantity of the chocolate butter filling and use on top of the cake as chocolate cake icing.
Enjoy...
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