Chocolate Sponge Cake
Chocolate Sponge Cake
Ingredients: Egg Mixture
6 egg yolks
1 whole egg ( @ 68grams with shells )
Ingredients: Egg Mixture
6 egg yolks
1 whole egg ( @ 68grams with shells )
(Total 105 grams from 6 eggs and 1 whole egg)
100 g butter
100 g Milk
40 g castor sugar
160 g Superfine cake flour
100 g butter
100 g Milk
40 g castor sugar
160 g Superfine cake flour
20 g Dark Compound Chocolate + 2 tables warm water to dissolve into paste.
2 teaspoon Chocolate emulco Oil
2 teaspoon Chocolate emulco Oil
Ingredient Meringue
6 egg whites (225 grams )
60 g castor sugar
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
Method:
Preparing Egg Mixture
- *Whisk egg yolk with castor sugar till dissolved and lightly fluffy and set aside.
- Heat up a small saucepan using the lowest heat, add corn oil till lightly warm immediately switch off the heat.
- Add in milk stir until well combine.
- Add in flour stir until well combine.
- *Add in egg yoke with sugar mixture as above combine well.
- Add in Chocolate and Coffee emulco mixed smooth smooth no lumps.
- Set aside we are going preparing meringue.
- In a mixing bowl, add egg white and cream of tartar, using electric hand mixer beat till soft frothy.
- Gradually add in castor sugar in 3 batches n beat till firm peak formed.
- Fold meringue into egg mixture in 3 batches using a hand whisk until no white streak.
- Softly pour meringue into baking pan, evenly spread inside then give the pan few tap on a table top. This will eliminate and reduce air bubbles.
- Set timer upper and lower to 180 c to 70 minutes.
- Place the square baking pan the lowest rack using water bath.
- For the last 15 minutes remove baking pan from water bath pan and place it back to the rack continue to bake.
- Remove from oven, and let the cake cool in the pan for about 10 minutes.
- You may notice cake pulling away from the pan making it easy to unmould.
- Remove from the pan and allow to cool completely on a wire rack.
Cake Pan
- I am using 8"x 8"x 3" square baking pan.
- Lined with parchment paper only bottom portion, without greasing pan.
- I am using the water bath method
- Preheat Oven.
- Prepare a bigger wider baking tray and add in estimate 1- 2 cm water.
- Preheated oven 170c for 15 mins set to upper and lower heat before baking.
- Bake 180c -60 minutes remove from oven water bath tray and continue to dry bake for 10 minutes.
- (This depend on your oven cos every oven heat setting are different you may refer to your Oven manual setting for better understanding of your oven.)