Chocolate Sponge Cake
Ingredients: Egg Mixture
6 egg yolks
Ingredients: Egg Mixture
6 egg yolks
( @ 68grams with shells 105 grams
80 g corn oil
80 g Milk
20 g castor sugar
80 g Milk
20 g castor sugar
130 g Superfine cake flour
1 teaspoon Chocolate emulco Oil
1 teaspoon Coffee emulco extract
1 teaspoon Chocolate emulco Oil
1 teaspoon Coffee emulco extract
Ingredient Meringue
6 egg whites (225 grams )
80 g castor sugar
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
7 " x 7" x 3 " square baking pan
Method:
Preparing Egg Mixture
Cake Pan
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 160 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 for another 10 minutes.
- 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 7"x 7"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 160c for 15 mins set to upper and lower heat before baking.
- Bake 160c -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.)