Lemon&chocolate sponge cake

Name: Lemon&chocolate sponge cake
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 300 g self raising flour; 100 g sugar; 100 g margarine/butter; 10 ml lemon juice; Lemon rind; 1 tablespoon cocoa powder; 6 eggs

Valarie Muthoni @valsy

Nairobi Kenya

Am soo Happy that am getting good at baking, the cake was soo soft moist and very sweet

Valarie Muthoni @valsy

Nairobi Kenya

Am soo Happy that am getting good at baking, the cake was soo soft moist and very sweet

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Ingredients

30mins

6 servings

300 gself raising flour
100 gsugar
100 gmargarine/butter
10 mllemon juice
Lemon rind
1 tablespooncocoa powder
6eggs

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Steps

30mins

1

Measure the ingridients and put them in individual bowls
2

Sieve flour in a bowl
3

Mix in the sugar and margarine/butter and cream them till fluffy
4

Gradually incorporate the eggs one by one unroll they're all mixed in
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Add lemon juice to stop the mixture from curdling
6

Gradually mix in the flour using a folding in motion
7

Sprinkle the grated lemon rind and mix it in
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Heat the oven to 250 degree Celsius
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Separate the mixture and add cocoa powder on one mixture add green colour on the other and mix them well
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Pour the mixture into a well greased baking tin
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Put the mixture in the oven and bake for 30mins
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Use a fork or skewer to check if the cake is well cooked inside, if you pork and it comes out clean the cake is well baked
13

Enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee