Who does not like chocolate or cocoa? If among your family and friends, you look for the people who do not like it, I am sure you will count them on the fingers of one hand and still have two fingers left!
Yogurt sponge cake is one of the easiest and quickest desserts to make. And to make this cocoa spongecake version, you only need to add a little cocoa powder. You will get a completely different sponge cake and everyone will love it!
I have to admit that I have always made chocolate sponge cake by melting and adding about 100 g of dark chocolate. But I also recognise that I made it much less often than I wanted to because of the “hassle” of melting chocolate and cleaning a bowl or pan with stuck chocolate.
Then I asked myself why I added chocolate and not just cocoa. After all… Chocolate is just cocoa, fat (cocoa butter), sugar and other ingredients (milk, vanilla, …)! And if my sponge cake already has sugar and oil in it… Why add more sugar and fat to my recipe?
So I decided to stop adding chocolate and only add cocoa: the main component responsible for the final flavour of chocolate. And by the way, I made a healthier recipe with less sugar and fat!
Plus, this recipe is cleaner since the cocoa powder is an ingredient added directly into the bowl.
As in the yogurt spongecake recipe, you will not need to use any weighting scales or weight any ingredient; you only need a yogurt pot to measure and remember the following proportions; 1, 2, 3, 4.
And why these proportions? Because we will use the yogurt pot to measure the rest of the ingredients, so easy!
In a bowl, we will add the yogurt pot (natural, without sugar), 1 yogurt pot of olive oil (I normally use olive oil (0,4 º), but you can also use sunflower oil), 2 yogurts pots of sugar (although I use to add little less; 1 or 1 & 1/2 would be enough), 3 wheat flour yogurts pots and 4 eggs (L Size). Add a tablespoon of baking powder, beat all the ingredients together, and bake the sponge cake… and you will have a delicious and fluffy sponge cake!
And remember that, simply by removing the cocoa, you can make the classic YOGURT sponge cake recipe, but you can also make a LEMON sponge cake, KIWI sponge cake … Your favourite flavour!
Let´s go with this easy recipe!
Difficulty: EASY
Preparation time: 1 hour
Baking time: 30 – 35 minutes
COCOA SPONGE CAKE
INGREDIENTS (For 1 sponge cake mould of 26 -28 cm diameter)
- 1 natural yogurt (without sugar)
- 1 yogurt olive oil (0,4 º)
- 2 (you can reduce it to 1 and 1/2) yogurts pots sugar
- 3 yogurts pots of wheat flour
- 4 eggs (L)
- 1 tablespoon of cocoa
- 1 tablespoon or sachet of baking powder
PREPARATION
Firstly, pre-heat the oven to 180 ºC. Heat up and down, without fan.
Later, grease all the sponge mould (both the base and the edges of the mould) with oil. We do this to prevent the cake batter from sticking to the surface of the mould and making it easier to unmould.
Add all the recipe ingredients in a bowl and mix them until everything is well combined.
If you are not sure which flour is best for making this sponge cake, I can tell you that you can use any type of flour (whole wheat, low & high protein) for this recipe. You can find the explanation in the following link.
After mixing, pour the mixture into the mould and put it in the oven. Place in a medium-low height.
Bake the sponge cake at 180 ºC for around 30 – 35 minutes or until the cake is golden brown and with the central part slightly higher than the sides. I use the top and bottom heat function and without fan. But if you want to use the fan, remember to lower the temperature by 20 ºC and bake the sponge cake at 160 ºC.
After baking, remove the sponge cake from the oven, cover it with a tea towel and leave it to cool (this way we prevent the cake from suffering a very sudden temperature change after removing it from the oven. This will help to better maintain its spongy structure).
Now just let it cool and… Enjoy it!
BETTER THAN CHOCOLATE: COCOA SPONGECAKE!
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minutesIngredients
1 natural yogurt (120 g)
1 yogurt olive oil (0,4 º) (100 g)
2 (you can reduce it to 1 and 1/2) yogurts sugar (150 g)
3 yogurts wheat flour (190 g)
4 eggs (L)
1 tablespoon of cocoa (15 g) (or 2 if you like it)
1 tablespoon or sachet of baking powder (15 g)
Preparation
- Pre-heat the oven to 180 ºC
- Grease the sponge mold with oil
- Add all the ingredientes in a bowl and mix them until everything is well mixed
- Pour the mixture in the mold and put in the oven
- Bake for around 30 - 35 minutes
- Remove the sponge cake from the oven, cover it with a tea towel and leave it to cool
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