10inch/25cm square choc sponge cake recipe needed!!

[felicityr]

I am madly attempting to make a castle cake for my daughters birthday and it needs to be a roughly square cake (i.e three square 10in sponges laid on top of each other) Trouble is, I can't find a definitive recipe for a square, 10inch chocolate sponge cake (or madeira is good) that I can bake to make this ridiculous cake lol. Any help greatly appreciated!

My fall back sponge recipe uses a basic mix that I factor up based on the number/size of tins. For a 10" tin, I would use the following: beat 6 oz butter (softened in microwave) and caster sugar together. Beat in 3 medium eggs. Sift in 6oz self raising flour plus 1/2 tspn baking powder. Beat together very quickly. This is a basic Victoria sandwich recipe. To make it into a chocolate mix, I mix 2 heaped tablespoons of drinking chocolate with a small amount of hot water to form a paste (for some reason it tastes so much better if you dissolve it in water?!). Then beat this into the mixture and pour into your lines tin. Cook in the oven at 170 C for approx 30 - 35mins. This will give a substantial sponge, you may only need two layers?

Not sure what receipe you are following, I made the castle in Perfect Party Cakes Made Easy by Carol Deacon a couple of years ago and found it really easy to follow and it looked amazing, I surprised myself! You can find the book on Amazon. The basic cake is round which meant I could use tins I already had!

Sorry lined tin (not lines tin!)

lol thank you very much! the castle is a square shaped hence the square tin. It's a pic of a club penguin cake that i'm trying to make and found on the internet but helpfully no clue as to how to make it! We've managed to make the little figures but the castle itself is proving tricky. thanks so much for the recipe, will try it out tomorrow and let you konw how i get on! x

I've just looked at that book, bubaluba, and I see what you mean - it is a princessy type castle, whereas mine is more sort of medieval castle lol. If you were interested, this link shows you exactly the cake i'm trying to make! hubpages.com/hub/Club-Penguin-Birthday-Cakes

Cool cake! You probably will need 3 layers. Top tip, if you have time, make your sponge a week before you need it, sandwich the layers with buttercream (or nutella and buttercream - yum), wrap in greaseproof paper and clingfilm before putting into the freezer. If you take it out and decorate the day before you need it, it is much easier to decorate as it keeps everything cool and then it will have fully defrosted and be ready to eat on the day of the party.

the party is on saturday, so if i make them tonight will that be okay to freeze it until friday? x

I'm not sure,
I would use a 3 egg mix in a 6" tin, I use 10 egg mix in 12" gives a good substantial cake, so I would go for at least a 6 egg mix in a 10"sq tin,
to do that cake I would also use an 8" tin,
and my ds would love that cake

I just checked the last cake I made was 10"sq I used 6 eggs and I wasn't happy with depth by the time I levelled it so made the second layer with 8 egg mix, hope this helps and dosen't confuse matters

8 eggs - how much of everything else though? I'm terrible at factoring!!!

1 egg plus 2oz of everything else therefore 8 eggs plus 16oz butter, sugar, flour, 1 tspn baking powder and then couple of heaped tablespoons on drinking chocolate in hot water. You will be ok making tonight and freezing until Friday. I'll be online for next hour or so so shout if you need help!

well it's in the oven.. the mix tasted delicious!!! let's hope the cake comes out okay!! will it need a longer cooking time than 35 mins? i'll just keep an eye on it for now. Great idea about the freezing though, thanks for that!

Yes if all the mixture is in one tin, I think you'll probably need at least 50-55 mins. The top will be spring to touch when it's ready.

Yeapm sorry abandoned you there 55 mins

OMG just realised this is wednesday, sorry I'm stressing about a wedding cake,

How did cake turn out?

Hi Ladies,

Can you tell me what temp this should be cooked at and for how long ?
Many thanks
Geri

Its ok...I have just read it ....oooops :))

I need a recipe for a plain Madeira cake 10" square tin - can anyone help!???

This thread saved my life yesterday - weighing the eggs then matching with equal volumes on flour, margarine and sugar works beautifully. THANKYOU!!!!!!

This thread saved my life yesterday - weighing the eggs then matching with equal volumes on flour, margarine and sugar works beautifully. THANKYOU!!!!!!

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