Italian chocolate sponge cake

Perfect Italian chocolate sponge cake that is high, light, delicate and soft. Prepared with only 4 ingredients, no butter, no oil and no baking powder. It’s a perfect base to be filled and decorated especially if you want to create chocolate cakes. It is not dry but light and elastic so perfect for creating light cream-covered cakes, birthday cakes or drip cakes. Follow my explanation and pastry tricks to always have it high and soft.

Italian chocolate sponge cake

Italian chocolate sponge cake is high, light and soft. Sponge cake perfect as a base for chocolate cakes.

Course cake

Cuisine Ovo-lacto vegetarianism

Keyword basic recipe, birthday cake, butter free cake, chocolate, chocolate cake, easy cake, simple cake

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 40

Total Time 55

Servings 18 cm wide pan

Calories 300kcal

Ingredients

5 medium eggs at room temperature
160 g white sugar
100 g all-purpose flour
30 g dark cocoa powder

Instructions

Instructions Italian chocolate sponge cake

Separate the egg whites from the yolks and whisk them until stiff.
Now gradually, spoon by spoon, add the sugar while continuing to beat on medium-low speed. Finally add the yolks, always one at a time, continuing to whisk.
Sift the flour and cocoa powder into the egg mixture. Gently fold in with a spatula, spoon or hand whisk. Do not use the mixer but slow movements from bottom to top until all the ingredients are blended.
Line the bottom and edge of an 18 – 20 cm diameter cake pan with baking paper. To make the baking paper stick well, I recommend greasing the pan with some butter or oil. Line the edges of the pan with baking paper making it come out a little from the pan, in this way it will be able to contain the batter during baking when it grows. Pour the batter into the pan and level it gently.
Bake in the static oven at 160 – 170ºC for about 35 – 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Once baked, remove from the oven and let it cool before removing it from the pan. Turn upside down and remove the parchment paper and leave to cool down completely.

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