Chocolate Sponge Cake

The chocolate sponge cake recipe, an easy and perfect recipe, for a soft and light genoise to make a birthday cake, an entremet or a layer cake.

Chocolate sponge cake

The recipe of the home-made sponge cake is a super soft and ultra light cake, the basic recipe in French pastry, made only with eggs, sugar, flour and cocoa.

Watch how to make this recipe in video

An easy sponge cake recipe

Also, this chocolate sponge cake is very easy to prepare, few ingredients, a quick preparation with only a stand mixer or electric mixer, a round cake pan.

And you can make the quantities of this recipe in a 8 inch/20 cm mould like here or in a 6 inch / 15 cm diameter mould to have a higher cake.

This chocolate cake recipe is perfect for :

• The dark forest
• A chocolate layer cake
  
• An entremet
• A chocolate rolled cake

Materials and ingredients for this recipe

Ingredients :

• A mixture of flour and cornstarch for a lighter cake.
• White powdered sugar, but you can also use cane sugar or other whole sugar.
• Eggs at room temperature!
• Unsweetened cocoa powder
• Salt, a small pinch (optional)
• Liquid or powder vanilla extract (optional)

My materials :

• A stand mixer or an electric mixer
• A round aluminum cake pan
• Baking paper
• A soft pastry spatula
• A cake tester
  
• A cake leveler
  
• A cake rack

How to make a successful homemade sponge cake

To make the most of this recipe and avoid the "sponge cake misfires" such as: "sponge cake that does not rise", "sponge cake that collapses after cooking" or "sponge cake that is not soft".

• Pay attention to the quantities, weigh your ingredients well.
• Follow well the indications and the order of preparation of the homemade sponge cake.
• Use the appropriate baking utensils.
• Mix gently with a pastry spatula to fully incorporate the flour and cocoa without dropping the dough and keep it soft.
• Do not open the oven during baking.
• Let your cake cool completely before cutting it.