Chocolate Sponge
A dish built around butter and prepared powdered cocoa.
contains glutencontains dairycontains eggs
Ingredients
US
Metric
- ½ cup butter
- ¼ cup prepared powdered cocoa
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon clove
- ½ cup cold water
- 1 cup flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
Make it lactose-friendly
- ½ cup butter → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil
Steps
- Cream the butter; add cocoa, yolks of eggs well beaten, sugar mixed with cinnamon and clove, and water. Beat the whites of eggs, and add to first mixture alternately with flour mixed and sifted with baking powder. Bake in small tins from fifteen to twenty minutes.
Nutrition (estimated, per serving)
| Calories | 471 |
|---|---|
| Protein | 7.4 g |
| Fat | 21.9 g |
| Carbs | 63.0 g |
| Fiber | 1.8 g |
| Sodium | 339 mg |
Source
The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (Fannie Farmer, pub. domain) — Public domain in the United States