SOFT CHOCOLATE CAKE/ HOW TO MAKE SPONGY CHOCOLATE CAKE AT HOME

I have given below the recipe of making a basic chocolate sponge cake. This is an easy to make recipe that is perfect for beginners. You can serve this chocolate cake as a tea cake or add frosting of your choice. I used this recipe to make Black forest cake and the cake came out awesome. You can also use this recipe to make Birthday Cakes with Butter cream or Chocolate frosting. I made 2 small cakes using this recipe. 

1 cup = 180 ml (normal tea cup)

Ingredients required for making a Chocolate Sponge cake

2 cups all purpose flour (maida)
½ cup cocoa powder
1 ½ tsp baking soda
2 cups powdered sugar
½ tsp salt
½ cup unsalted butter
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla essence

Method

Powder the sugar in a mixer, check that the eggs are at room temperature and keep the butter outside the refrigerator so that it can soften a bit. Softened butter is easier to beat but do not allow it to melt.

Now sieve together All purpose flour, baking soda and cocoa powder twice and set aside. Then take a large bowl, add butter and powdered sugar and mix. When both the ingredients are mixed well, add eggs one at a time and beat well. Now add salt, vanilla essence, milk and beat till all the ingredients are well mixed.

Preheat the oven at 170 degree Celsius with both rods on for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, grease two aluminum cake pans with butter and then dust with flour. Dust away any excess flour and keep the pans ready. Then add the flour-cocoa mix little by little to the egg-butter-sugar mix and mix well either with a wooden spoon or with your hands. Make sure that there are no lumps. Divide this equally between two cake pans such that they are half full and place them in the central rack of the oven. Bake at the same temperature with upper and lower rods on for 20 to 25 minutes or till a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

This recipe makes two cakes of 5 ½” diameter and 1 ½” height. You can also cut each cake into 2 layers and assemble with cream to form one large 4 layer cake.

Note:

• Always wait for a few minutes before taking out the cake.
• Allow it to cool down completely before cutting.
• Keep it in an air tight container and/or refrigerate for later use.

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