Chocolate Sponge Cake

RECIPE

Chocolate sponge cake
@mubina_18

4 eggs, large
Pinch of salt
¾ cup sugar
¾ cups flour
¼ cup cocoa powder, sifted
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted


Sift the flour, cocoa powder and the baking powder. Melt the butter.
Place the eggs into a bowl. Add a pinch of salt. Turn the mixer and start whipping them
When the eggs are slightly foamy, without stopping the mixer start pouring the sugar slowly into the eggs.
Continue whipping the eggs and sugar for about 10 minutes until the mixture is pale yellow and increased in volume.
Combine the sifted flour, cocoa powder and the baking powder and stir  everything to combine. you can just sift everything together.
Now add ½ the flour mixture into the egg mixture and carefully fold the dry ingredients until almost no streaks of flour are seen.
Add the other half of the flour mixture and keep folding just until no streaks of flour are seen. Do not overmix or the cake will be dense.add 2 tablespoon of melted butter.
Continue carefully folding until all butter is incorporated. Pour batter into baking pan. Bake on 180.C. For 25 minutes.


POSTED ON

29 Jan 2018

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