Moist Chocolate Cake
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Abuja, Nigeria ·
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Abuja, Nigeria ·
A two-layer chocolate cake made by creaming butter with sugar, with cocoa bloomed in warm milk. No country is claimed and none is implied, this is a standard Western chocolate layer cake. One correction to the title. The source calls this a sponge, and it is not one. A true sponge gets its lift from air whipped into eggs, uses little or no fat, and is characteristically light and dry, which is why sponges are usually soaked in syrup. This recipe creams butter with sugar and relies on baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. That makes it a butter cake, which is precisely why it is moist and why it stays soft for days. The technique is the reason for the quality the title advertises, so it is worth naming correctly. The slug and URL are unchanged. The one technique here that genuinely earns its place is blooming the cocoa: whisking it into warm milk before it meets the batter. Cocoa powder is largely insoluble and hydrating it first dissolves the flavour compounds and prevents the dry, dusty pockets you get from tipping it in with the flour. The source names two premium cocoa brands. Any good dark cocoa works; what matters is that it is real cocoa powder rather than a sweetened drinking mix.
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Heat the oven to 350°F / 180°C. Grease two 8 or 9 inch cake tins and line the bases with parchment.
Whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt together and set aside.
Cream the butter and sugar with an electric mixer for 3 to 5 minutes, until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla.
Whisk half a cup of the warm milk into a portion of the cocoa mixture until you have a smooth paste. This is what dissolves the cocoa properly.
Work the dry mixture and the remaining milk into the butter mixture alternately, in batches, beginning and ending with the dry. Fold gently after each addition, only until combined.
Divide the batter evenly between the tins.
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Cool in the tins for 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire racks and cool completely before frosting.
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