chocolate sponge cake
Member recipe by katiepebbles1
Servings
Serves 1 - 2 Cakesits simply spongy and delicious
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Ingredients
- 60g coco powder
- 6 tbsp boiling water
- 3 free range eggs
- 4 tbsp milk
- 175g self raising flour
- 1 rounded tsp baking powder
- 100g soft butter
- 300g caster sugar
- For the icing:
- 150g chocolate broken into small pieces
- 150ml double cream
- icing sugar (to dust)
Method
- Preheat oven to 180c then grease and line 2 cake tins.
- mix the coco powder and the water until it forms a paste. Add the rest of the ingredients and beat until wll combined.
- divide the mixture between the 2 cake tins. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until well risen and shrinking away from the sides.
- Put chocolate and cream together in a bowl and stand over a pan of boiling water until melted. Set aside and leave until cool and almost set.
- put the icing all over your cakes and dust icing sugar.
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