Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chocolate sponge cake (sokolatopita). It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Sokolatopita (in Greek: Σοκολατόπιτα) is a heavenly chocolate cake, moistened with a light syrup. If you need an excuse to eat all the chocolate you crave without feeling guilty, then surely today, World Chocolate Day, is THAT day. To celebrate, here is our Sokolatopita recipe for you to try Chocolate Sponge Cake - Fluffy, moist and perfectly leveled - this sponge cake recipe is the one to have as it works every time.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook chocolate sponge cake (sokolatopita) using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita):
- Prepare Syrup:
- Make ready 1 cup water
- Make ready 250 grams Butter
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup Sugar
- Prepare 3/4 cups Cocoa
- Take 1/2 cup Cognac (optional)
- Get 2 tablespoons Vanilla powder extract or liquid
- Prepare Sprinkles (optional)
- Make ready Cake batter:
- Take 1 1/2 cups All purpose flour
- Take 4 Eggs
- Get 2 teaspoons Baking powder
- Take 1 pinch Salt
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Instructions 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!!! 🙂
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. This chocolate sponge cake is ridiculously easy to make once you have the technique down and it's almost impossible to mess it up! What sets a sponge cake apart from other cakes is the method of preparation and ingredients. Recipes like this one call for more eggs than usual, six to be exact! recipes.
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