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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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):
- Make ready Syrup:
- Take 1 cup water
- Take 250 grams Butter
- Take 1 1/2 cup Sugar
- Make ready 3/4 cups Cocoa
- Make ready 1/2 cup Cognac (optional)
- Make ready 2 tablespoons Vanilla powder extract or liquid
- Get Sprinkles (optional)
- Take Cake batter:
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups All purpose flour
- Prepare 4 Eggs
- Make ready 2 teaspoons Baking powder
- Get 1 pinch Salt
Sift or combine together the flour, cocoa powder, and the baking powder together. Now, this chocolate sponge cake is a little different from most in that it does not contain flour which makes for a very light and moist cake. I like the texture as it reminds me of the molten chocolate cakes or maybe a baked chocolate mousse. Old-fashioned Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita) made with cocoa powder, flavored with Brandy and completely soaked in syrup! https://www.realgreekrecipes.com/…/chocolate-sponge-cake-r…/ It's made with cocoa powder instead of chocolate which gives a stronger chocolaty flavor when baked and a much softer texture.
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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