A chocolate cream cake for Mum

For years and years Mum kept saying that the cakes I made weren’t light enough. Turns out it’s because she prefers the spongier texture and subtler flavour of Asian bakery cakes, rather than those with a cakier crumb which I enjoy. So with it being Mum’s birthday – well, one of her birthdays, depending on whether she chooses to celebrate according to the Gregorian calendar or the Chinese Lunar one – and an appropriately timed post from Vondelicious, I decided to give baking one those Asian-style cakes a try.


And while I’m not one of those people who can recall baking recipes from the top of their head, I do at least remember that most call for a ratio of 2 eggs, 125g of butter, half a cup of sugar and about one and a half cups of flour. This recipe, however, threw all that out the window with its high egg and low flour content, which I suppose is how that spongy texture is achieved.


It was quite an easy cake to make and didn’t involve much washing up at all. As there is no butter involved and only a small amount of oil, the washing up was very easy as well. There is quite a volume of eggs to whisk, so an electric mixer of some sort will help a great deal. I baked my cake in a 20cm round cake tin (which took around 35 minutes) and may have checked the cake for doneness too early, as the poor cake suffered quite a bit of collapse once removed from the oven and upon cooling. This resulted in a two rather than a three-layer cake, with thicker portions of (possibly over-beaten) cream in between and on top, but it didn’t bother my mother in the slightest.

Most importantly, Mum loved the cake and I now have serious thoughts of making this again but as a matcha version! Mmmm...


happy birthday, mum!

14 comments:

  1. No wonder your mum loved her cake, it looks lovely and is exactly what she was looking for!

    I've never actually made a sponge-type cake before, so maybe I need to get onto it!

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  2. Great job Rita, especially on the icing and decoration..!

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  3. ooh pretty layers! my family prefers these kinds of cakes as well (I'm not a big fan) so I may just give this a go one day

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  4. Gorgeous cake Rita! It looks so professional! :)

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  5. Such a delicious cake. I love all cake, but a good light sponge goes down well. Looking forward to seeing the matcha version. Now, I think I need to follow a few more calenders to appreciate my birthday just that little bit more ;p

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  6. I'm an equal opportunity cake lover :) But I've never made one of these babies before, I'll have to try this recipe. It looks adorable!

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  7. I think your mum would have loved any cake you make!

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  8. The layers in that cake would of made it taste so good, esp with the cute cake toppings!

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  9. mums! ive been making chocolate cakes for years and she finally told me last year that she hates chocolate and was forced to eat mine! u can imagine how shattered i was.

    i should try to make a light cake sometime too

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  10. Very well done :) It looks lovely. I love all cake equally!

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  11. happy belated birthday to your mummy! hehe you've given me confidence to try the recipe; i'm terrible with sponge cakes cause they usually fail on me :( but yours seems to have turned out great!

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  12. Mothers have a way don't they? Of stretching boundaries and making us achieve great heights. The cake is wonderful - looks wonderful and most of all is wonderful because of ALL the love that went into it. Well done. The matcha version, with a bit of chocolate swirled in would be awesome! such depth of flavour.

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  13. wow it looks perfect. very nice of you to cook your mum a cake :)

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  14. aww!! mum's are the best! I much prefer using oil in cakes it always ends up being alot more nicer than butter :) well done!

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