Taiwanese Chocolate Sponge Cake with Chocolate Chips

Recipe adapted from 厨苑食谱

Ingredients : 8” square pan

(A)

5 egg yolks

65g cake flour

25g cocoa powder

90g milk

50g oil

(B)

5 egg whites

60g sugar

(C)

Adequate chocolate chips for topping

65g chocolate, chopped in small pieces

 Method :

1. Sift cake flour with cocoa powder, set aside.
2. Heat the corn oil with low heat until lines appear, add in flour mixture immediately and mix well until no lumps.
3. Add fresh milk and egg yolk, mix well till smooth batter is formed.
4. In another bowl, whisk the egg whites until frothy, add in sugar in patches. Whisk till soft peak form.
5. Gently fold in meringue into chocolate batter until mix well.
6. Pour half of  the batter into the cake pan, sprinkled with the chopped chocolate, then pour in the balance batter.
7. Sprinkled with chocolate chips on the top and lightly tap the pan to remove air bubbles.
8. Bake in preheated oven at 150C for 30 mins with a bowl of water and off the top heat. Then on back the top heat and continue to bake for 15-20 mins.