Black Forest cake

I made this cake last week, for this cake I like to used spongy chocolate cake recipes, never disappointed.

Spongy chocolate sponge cake

Finally I made this spongy chocolate cake, good recipe , I can used it for Black forest cake, next time I have to used 9 inch 0r 10 inch baking pan, instead of 8 inch.

Ingredients:

203 g Whole eggs

32 g Egg yolks

135 g Caster sugar

21 g Glucose

1 g Salt

32 g Vegetable oil

21 g Cocoa powder

106 g Cake flour

1 g Baking soda

21 g Milk

Method:

1. Warm vegetable oil and mix in cocoa powder until well mixed and dissolved.

2. In a large mixing bowl, add in whole eggs, egg yolk, caster sugar and salt and beat on high speed until foamy and about doubled in volume and salt and sugar have dissolved.

3. Add in glucose and beat on medium speed until ribbon stage.

4. Sift flour and baking soda over beaten egg mixture. Mix in flour on low speed for 3 seconds just to combine most of the flour. After which, mix at medium speed for approx 20 seconds (or even less) just until mostly incorporated. Fold in any remaining traces of flour with rubber spatula.

5. Take some of the beaten egg mixture and add it into the cocoa powder-vegetable oil mixture to lighten the mixture. Add it into the egg mixture, together with the milk and fold until well incorporated.

Sponge cake

I have been searching for an easy sponge cake recipes, and stumble upon Kitchen corner blog, she made a very soft sponge cake,and she found the recipe from youtube.
The only problem, I don't speak chinese language, well I just watch the video on youtube and got the ingredients from kitchen corner blog.






Ingredients for the plain sponge cake:

140g plain flour
4 eggs
30g milk
180g sugar/ 206 g sugar
4g salt
30g oil

Method:

A. Beat the egg with sugar till fluffy with mixer

B. add the sifted flour and salt to the beaten egg, and beat again with mixer till blended , don't over mix

C. mix milk and oil in separate bowl

D. add some of B ( approximately 5 spoon) to C

E. add D to B mix with spatula till well blend.

F. Bake for 35 minutes at 180 C

I added my leftover pineapple chunk and whip cream for the filling.

Sponge cake

Sponge cake

Another cotton sponge cake, found the recipe from here.

Sponge cake

Found the recipe from Alex Goh from the internet, I do some adjustment to the recipe. Yumm, so soft like cotton.

Ingredients

A:

COTTON SPONGE CAKE
Ingredients A:

60g butter, melted ( I used vegetable oil)

80g flour ( I added 4 tbs corn four)

80ml UHT milk

1 egg +5 egg yolks

Ingredients B:

5 egg whites

120g sugar

Pinch of salt ( I used cream of tartar)

Method:
1. Beat 1 egg plus 5 yolks until creamy and fluffy. Fold in flour and alternate it with milk. Add in melted butter and mix well.
2. Whip egg whites with a pinch of salt and sugar until soft peak.
3. Mix step (2) above with egg yolk batter till well combined.
4. Pour into fully lined baking pan (mine is 8" square).
5. Bake at preheated oven 170 deg C for 25 mins then reduce heat to150 deg C for another 10 mins or till done.
6. Let the cake sits for 2 mins and unmould it.