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Sokolatopita (in Greek: Σοκολατόπιτα) is a heavenly chocolate cake, moistened with a light syrup. If you need an excuse to eat all the chocolate you crave without feeling guilty, then surely today, World Chocolate Day, is THAT day. To celebrate, here is our Sokolatopita recipe for you to try Pour reserved chocolate syrup over and cool. (the cake will not have risen much, it is low, dense and fudgy).
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have chocolate sponge cake (sokolatopita) using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita):
- Get Syrup:
- Make ready 1 cup water
- Make ready 250 grams Butter
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup Sugar
- Take 3/4 cups Cocoa
- Make ready 1/2 cup Cognac (optional)
- Make ready 2 tablespoons Vanilla powder extract or liquid
- Take Sprinkles (optional)
- Take Cake batter:
- Make ready 1 1/2 cups All purpose flour
- Prepare 4 Eggs
- Get 2 teaspoons Baking powder
- Prepare 1 pinch Salt
Made with cocoa powder instead of chocolate which gives it a very soft chocolaty texture. It's flavored with brandy and soaked in a honey syrup to complete this cakes old world charm. One of the softest and easiest chocolate cakes you will ever. Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake - Sokolatopita. · A traditional Greek Chocolate Sponge Cake Recipe.
Instructions to make Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita):
- In a large sauce pan melt butter, sugar, cocoa, water.
- In a large bowl add the flour, baking power, salt and eggs. Beat nicely and set aside.
- Before pouring syrup into the batter, set aside 1 small cup of syrup. Pour syrup very slowly and mix.
- Stir cake batter and add in the Vanilla extract.
- Pour in Cognac. Pour batter into a buttered baking pan, and bake for 25 minutes at 180 degrees.
- 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!!! 🙂
Made with cocoa powder instead of chocolate which gives it a very soft chocolaty texture. Old-fashioned Chocolate Sponge Cake (Sokolatopita) made with cocoa powder, flavored with Brandy and completely soaked in syrup! https://www.realgreekrecipes.com/…/chocolate-sponge-cake-r…/ This chocolate sponge cake is ridiculously easy to make once you have the technique down and it's almost impossible to mess it up! What sets a sponge cake apart from other cakes is the method of preparation and ingredients. Recipes like this one call for more eggs than usual, six to be exact! Now, this chocolate sponge cake is a little different from most in that it does not contain flour which makes for a very light and moist cake.
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