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Chocolate Sponge Cake – Sokolatopita

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Chocolate mmmmhhh a favorite sweet that most just love.  I haven’t made this Chocolate Sponge cake in a while, and I decided to make it last night. I had all the ingredients and it only took about 35 minutes. Just mixed, baked and it was ready! 

When the cake finally cooled off, it was time to start pouring the homemade chocolate syrup on top, I have to admit just looking at it had me drooling and I’m not even a chocolate lover…Me like white Chocolate. 🙂 

Every dish or dessert I make I have to taste, this cake has me second guessing about not liking chocolate!!! 🙂  I added Cognac into the batter just to give it a bit of twist 🙂

If you haven’t had Chocolate Sponge Cake try this recipe you’ll love it!!

 

CHOCOLATE SPONGE CAKE – SOKOLATOPITA

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Ingredients
  

  • Syrup:
  • 1 cup water
  • 250 grams Butter
  • 1 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 3/4 cups Cocoa
  • 1/2 cup Cognac optional
  • 2 tablespoons Vanilla powder extract or liquid
  • Sprinkles optional

Cake batter:

  • 1 1/2 cups All purpose flour
  • 4 Eggs
  • 2 teaspoons Baking powder
  • 1 pinch Salt

Instructions
 

  • 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 🙂

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Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

43 Comments

  1. foodzesty
    October 6, 2017 at 7:53 am  ·  Reply

    hahahah sure where shall I sent it?

  2. foodzesty
    October 6, 2017 at 7:54 am  ·  Reply

    I asked another blogger friend yesterday if he could send me a piece of his chocolate ras cake but no luck hahahhaaha….

  3. olivetreebythesea
    October 6, 2017 at 8:23 am  ·  Reply

    These pictures make me crave for sweeeets 🙂

  4. jyo
    October 6, 2017 at 9:43 am  ·  Reply

    Yumminess loaded 👍👍

  5. chefkreso
    October 6, 2017 at 9:55 am  ·  Reply

    Simple yet so chocolaty and delicious, nice work, I’ll have to give it a try soon! 🙂

  6. Edmark M. Law
    October 6, 2017 at 10:07 am  ·  Reply

    I’m planning to bake something this weekend. Might as well try this recipe. Thanks for sharing.

  7. dtills
    October 6, 2017 at 1:50 pm  ·  Reply

    Looks so good Sophie! I always add coffee to my chocolate recipes -of course I do have a dependency on coffee :), but Cognac sounds great!

  8. Peg Glover
    October 6, 2017 at 2:26 pm  ·  Reply

    Looks Heavenly!!

  9. Megala
    October 6, 2017 at 3:09 pm  ·  Reply

    Beautiful & tempting cake !

  10. Karin, theaustriandish
    October 6, 2017 at 7:11 pm  ·  Reply

    That looks so mouthwatering! I really need a piece of that cake 🙂

  11. Margaret from soulfood101blog
    October 6, 2017 at 10:30 pm  ·  Reply

    Makes me want to lick my computer screen…YUM!

  12. a little Swiss, a little Canadian
    October 7, 2017 at 1:05 am  ·  Reply

    This looks so scrumptious!😋

  13. ramyarecepies
    October 7, 2017 at 11:39 am  ·  Reply

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  14. mistimaan
    October 9, 2017 at 10:02 am  ·  Reply

    So yummy 🙂

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  15. Novus Lectio
    October 9, 2017 at 4:33 pm  ·  Reply

    You’ve been nominated again

  16. MoJo
    October 11, 2017 at 11:27 am  ·  Reply

    Again it just feels cruel to make and post pics of food that looks so amazing, yet there are samples in my mailbox. Hmm. 😘

  17. msw blog
    October 30, 2017 at 5:51 pm  ·  Reply

    Me to with a glass of good red wine 😋

  18. Lisa@LismorePaperCo.
    October 31, 2017 at 1:55 am  ·  Reply

    This is absolutely divine!!!💗

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