Wednesday 28 August 2013

Moist Chocolate Sponge Cake

Double chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream frosting
This simple chocolate cake recipe is easy to follow and the resultant cake is simply delicious and is guaranteed to get you hooked. Perfect for all occasions. 

Ingredients:

Margarine.                           350g
Sugar.                                   800g

Eggs.                                    8 medium sized eggs
Flour.                                    600g
Coco powder.                       250g
Yoghurt.                               1 1/2 cup
Vegetable oil                        1/2 cup
Water                                    1/2 cup
Bicarbonate of soda.            1 table spoon
Baking powder.                    1 tablespoon


Method
Cream the margarine and sugar until it is light. Because the sugar is much, it will not be fluffy.

 
       350g margarine

sugar 800g

 
creamed margarine and sugar

Mix together the dry ingredients with a whisk (i.e. cocoa powder and flour)
flour 600g
Cocoa powder 250g



Break the eggs in a bowl and whisk it.

8 eggs

Add the eggs to the creamed mixture
Interchangeably add the liquid ingredients and the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Ensure you add dry ingredients last.

Scoop into two 9" by 2" already prepared baking pans.
 
Bake in a preheated oven for approximately 1 hour or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.



Viola you have your delicious chocolate cake.

9 comments:

  1. Ahdaisy,oh sorry sazzy this is good but not well detailed

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  2. Pls I would like to d mixing and all

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  3. Ezewanyi, sorry love I am still trying to get this right, most of my pictures did come out right. Was even considering removing these ones cos they are not clear enough. I promise to get better. Just follow the steps I detailed and you will have amazing results.

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  4. This looks lovely but I want to ask how long will this cake last

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  5. @ anon 14 Sept, the shelf life of this cake is 5 days. But if refridgerated it will last longer than that.

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  6. Can I put brandy in this to last longer?

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    1. I have never tried putting brandy, but brandy increases the shelf life of cakes. If you decided to try it out let us now how long it lasts.

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  7. If u want ur cake 2last longer; u can add powdered preservative; sold @cake shops; add 4 of 1tbsp to 1kg; u can dn add brown rum/brandy incase of brown/chocolate cakes; MrsAJ

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