Simple Way to Prepare Thomas Keller Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita)

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chocolate sponge cake (sokolatopita). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita) is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chocolate sponge cake (sokolatopita) using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita):

1. Get Syrup:
2. Take 1 cup water
3. Get 250 grams Butter
4. Make ready 1 1/2 cup Sugar
5. Take 3/4 cups Cocoa
6. Get 1/2 cup Cognac (optional)
7. Take 2 tablespoons Vanilla powder extract or liquid
8. Prepare Sprinkles (optional)
9. Prepare Cake batter:
10. Prepare 1 1/2 cups All purpose flour
11. Get 4 Eggs
12. Take 2 teaspoons Baking powder
13. Get 1 pinch Salt

Instructions to make Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita):

1. In a large sauce pan melt butter, sugar, cocoa, water.
2. In a large bowl add the flour, baking power, salt and eggs. Beat nicely and set aside.
3. Before pouring syrup into the batter, set aside 1 small cup of syrup. Pour syrup very slowly and mix.
4. Stir cake batter and add in the Vanilla extract.
5. Pour in Cognac. Pour batter into a buttered baking pan, and bake for 25 minutes at 180 degrees.
6. 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!!! 🙂

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