How is everyone this snowy day? We’ve been stuck indoors since Tuesday, with boiler issues and, well, snow. Now, craving chocolate sponge!
As we’re now back up and warm (thank you engineer ‘Andy’!), it’s time to get back to the passion – and do some baking.
I love my old 1970s Kenwood mixer (other, and newer, mixers are available!!). I popped in the eggs and sugar, and left it whirring away while I emptied and reloaded the dishwasher, fed the menagerie and made myself a coffee. Don’t scrimp this stage; you want your eggs and sugar to really fluff up; it’s worth just taking some time. The mixture should rise massively, and resemble cream (remember school cookery lessons – everything has to resemble cream; I wonder what they chose before someone churned cream?). Anyway, the lighter you get this now, the lighter your cake will be. Continue reading “Chocolate and raspberry sponge”