Chocolate Sponge Cake Recipe
Friday, April 30, 2010 at 10:32AM 
Chocolate Sponge Cake
Recipe by Jackie Cameron
From an early age, my sister and I would whip up a chocolate sponge cake when craving a little sweetness. This recipe has been made more times than anyone can remember. The page is yellow with age and the words splattered with ingredients but it doesn’t matter because we girls know the recipe by heart.
Yields : One small cake of 22cm
Ingredients :
½ cup Margarine
1 ½ cup Sugar
3 medium Eggs
1 t Vanilla Essence
1 ½ cup Cake Flour
2 T Cocoa Powder
2 t Baking Powder
¾ cup Milk
*Creamy Cocoa/Milk Icing
15 ml salted Butter
400g Icing Sugar
30 g Cocoa Powder
90 ml full cream Milk
Method :
1) Cream the margarine and the sugar until light in colour
2) Add the eggs one at a time to ensure complete whisking and then vanilla essence
3) Add the dry ingredients alternatively with the milk amount. (If you were making a vanilla, orange or coffee cake you would remove the two tablespoons of cocoa and add two extra tablespoons of cake flour.)
4) Once everything is added and incorporated put your electric beater on high and allow non –stop whisking for five minutes
5) Divide mixture in half and pour into two greased oven pans and bake at 180˚C for 15-20 minutes
Icing
6) Whisk the soft butter and slowly start adding the icing sugar so to ensure all butter lumps are worked through the icing sugar. Continue slowly adding the rest of the icing sugar and the cocoa powder alternatively with the milk to the butter mixture.
7) Ice the cake when cooled and serve
Please post your comments and any food-related questions below
I look forward to hearing from you
Jackie Cameron
Head Chef
Hartford House
www.hartford.co.za
jackie@hartford.co.za
+27 33 263 2713
Reader Comments (8)
Hi Jackie
Can I make this quantity and use it in one 25cm cake tin and then make it again to have two 25cm square cakes? I want to make a square chocolate mousse ganache cake for 40 pax and I need guidelines :)
Thank you for responding! Joanne
Hi Joanne,
This recipe is for a small chocolate sponge cake. Depending on what depth you are wanting your mousse cake to be, I would probably suggest doing this cake three times for the two tins. I do though have a "Chocolate Mousse Cake Recipe " amongst my recipes on the blog... click here... this may help you out. Look at this and contact me with any questions.
All the best with this.
Yours in hospitality
Jackie Cameron
(Head Chef)
Dear Jackie
My daughter has decided to go and study to be a Chef after a matric this year. We have given her our full support as she loves cooking. Our challenge is that being a chef is not something that we know much about and have had difficulties in helping her select the best college for her studies next year. Would you by any chance be in a position to recommend some colleges for to us.
Thank you in advance for your response.
Nellie Kadalie
Hi Nellie,
This is all very exciting! A wonderful career to be studying. There are so many top colleges in the country; what area are you looking at - KZN, Gauteng, Cape ... let me know and I will be more than happy to give you a few options.
I look forward to hearing from you. Bye bye for now.
Yours in hospitality
Jackie Cameron
(Head Chef)
Dear Jackie,
will this cake be suitable to use in a three tiered flake cake?I made a moist chocolate cake covered with ganache and it practically fell apart on cutting, I am making this for my niece's 21st and i think i need a more "solid" cake.
Thanks in advance
Sharifa
Hi Sharifa, thanks so much for your post.
YES, I AM UNSURE WHAT YOU MEAN BY FLAKE CAKE THOUGH.
THIS IS A VERY LIGHT BUT FIRMLY TEXTURED CAKE. TRULY FOOL PROOF AS WE USED TO MAKE IT AS KIDS.
THIS SHOULD WORK WELL.
LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.
ALL THE BEST AND HAVE A LOVELY EVE.
Yours in hospitality
Jackie Cameron
(Head Chef)
Thank you for your comment - I will make it over the weekend and will send u a pic of the end product - by flake cake i meant im putting flakes all around the cake :-)Thanks for a great blog i love cooking and baking and Im always in the kitchen testing a recipe or two :-)
Awesome, thanks so much for this. Only a pleasure with regards to blog. I look forward to receiving a pic at some point.
Have a lovely weekend and all the best.
Yours in hospitality
Jackie Cameron
(Head Chef)