Recipe: Appetizing Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita)

Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita).

You can have Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita) using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita)

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

Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita) instructions

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!!! 🙂.