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Collection: Cookies & Cakes
Recipe By: Lexielief
Chocolate Genoise Sponge
Ingredients
- 70 g plain gluten free flour blend, sifted
- 20 g cocoa powder, sifted
- pinch fine sea salt
- ¼ scant tsp xanthan gum
- 40 g unsalted butter, melted
- 100 g white caster sugar
- 3 large eggs
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Directions
- Prepare the non-stick baking tin, by base-lining with baking paper and lightly rubbing the inside with a little butter.
- Pre-heat the oven to 180 C.
- In a bowl or container, weigh and thoroughly mix together the flour, cocoa, salt and xanthan gum. Set aside.
- In a small heat-proof bowl, melt the butter au baine marie. Set aside.
- Get ready a large heat-proof bowl and a large saucepan with an inch or two of water (over which the bowl sits snugly, but doesn't touch the water).
- Bring the water to a very low simmer.
- Weigh the sugar and crack the eggs into the large heat-proof bowl and whisk continually using an electric hand whisk (set over the barely simmering water) for 7 to 10 minutes.
- Keep whisking until the mixture is pale, has almost tripled in volume and a lasting trail (of a few seconds) can be formed on the surface when the whisk is lifted.
- Remove from the heat, before sifting the flour-cocoa mix across the surface and gently drizzling the melted butter around the edge of the bowl.
- Quickly and gently fold the dry ingredients and butter into the mixture using light and high sweeps with a large spoon (in a circular folding motion), retaining as much air as possible. Fold until the mixture is even, but be careful not to over-mix.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared baking tin and very gently smooth the surface.
- Bake for about 20 to 30 minutes until well-risen. The top should just spring back when pressed and a cake skewer inserted will come out clean. Keep a close eye and check minute by minute at the end to be sure it isn't over-baked.
- Leave the sponge to cool in the tin for 5 to 10 minutes, before removing and transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. To ensure moisture is retained, cover with a clean tea towel while cooling.
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