Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita). A traditional Greek Chocolate Sponge Cake Recipe. Made with cocoa powder instead of chocolate which gives it a very soft chocolaty texture. It's flavored with brandy and soaked in a honey syrup to complete this cakes old world charm.
Prep: Gather your ingredients and measure them before starting. Sift or combine together the flour, cocoa powder, and the baking powder together. 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…/ 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. You can have Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita) using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita)
- It’s of Syrup:.
- Prepare 1 cup of water.
- You need 250 grams of Butter.
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup of Sugar.
- Prepare 3/4 cups of Cocoa.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of Cognac (optional).
- You need 2 tablespoons of Vanilla powder extract or liquid.
- You need of Sprinkles (optional).
- It’s of Cake batter:.
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups of All purpose flour.
- You need 4 of Eggs.
- It’s 2 teaspoons of Baking powder.
- Prepare 1 pinch of Salt.
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Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita) step by step
- 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!!! 🙂.
I've got you covered with this fantastic, rich and chocolate-y version! While most chocolate cakes tend to be dense and fudge-y, this recipe yields a super fluffy, light as air cake layer that will surprise you! This classic chocolate sponge cake recipe is so easy to make and just perfect for sharing. Turn the chocolate sponge cake upside down so the top becomes the bottom. Slice it horizontally and fill with whipped cream and fruit – raspberries or strawberries work well.
