Here’s a delicious and light chocolate sponge cake which is excellent for making fondant cakes.
This cake is called ‘Danish Dream Cake’ and it is my favourite cake recipe when it comes to making cakes with fondant: It is soft and spongy, but at the same time it is really easy to cut into layers and use as a layer cake. There is a white sponge cake variant, but today I am making the chocolate version 🙂
How to bake a Danish Dream Cake – chocolate version
(See recipe below)
Preheat the oven to 185 degrees (365 degree F)
Using my Kitchenaid, I beat the eggs and sugar until pale and fluffy – beat for approx. 10 min. Stir in the vanilla beans.
In the meantime, sieve flour, cocoa powder and baking powder into another bowl. Stir it together with a spoon.
In a small saucepan, combine milk with butter and heat until the butter melts. Remove the saucepan from the heat and allow it to cool off.
Add the dry ingredients to the egg/sugar mix alternating with the milk and butter. Mix each addition just until incorporated. Do not overmix or the cake will be dense.
Then, butter a baking pan AND line it with parchment paper. Start by greasing the baking pan with butter (grease both the bottom, the corners and the sides). Then, I cut out a piece of parchment paper into a round shape with the same diameter as the pan. (I will simply draw the circle on the parchment paper with a marker, while I trace the shape of the baking pan). Finally, I cut out some long strips of parchment paper and I place them along the sides of the baking pan (they will stick due to the grease).
Pour the batter into the baking pan and shake the pan back and forth a couple of times to even out the batter.
Bake the cake until a toothpick comes out clean – approx. 40-50 min. (depending on the size of the cake and your oven)
Take out of the oven at leave it in the pan for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- 4 eggs
- 300 gram of white sugar (1 1/3 cups)
- 1 vanilla bean, split, seeds scraped
- 2 tbsp. baking powder
- 250 gram of all-purpose flour (2 cups)
- 4 tablespoons of cocoa powder (
- 200 ml milk (6.8 oz. or 0.85 cup)
- 85 gram melted butter (3/8 cup)
- Butter for greasing
- Preheat oven to 185°C. / 365° F
- Beat the eggs and sugar until pale and fluffy – beat for approx. 10 min
- Add the vanilla beans
- In a small saucepan, combine milk with butter and heat until the butter melts. Remove the saucepan from the heat and allow it to cool off.
- Sieve the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder into another bowl. Stir it together with a spoon.
- Add the dry ingredients to the egg/sugar mix alternating with the milk and butter. Mix each addition just until incorporated. Be careful not to overmix
- Then, butter a baking pan AND line it with parchment paper.
- Scrape the batter into the prepared pan.
- Shake the pan back and forth a couple of times to even out the batter.
- Bake the cake until a toothpick comes out clean – approx. 40-50 min. (depending on the size of the cake and your oven)
- Take out of the oven and leave it in the pan for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
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I am Karen and I love to bake and make flowers & a lot of other stuff from fondant. 
Thanks so much MA. Great work!
Hello Karen, I am Rosemary from India. Thank you for your receipe and also for all the sugar paste flower tutorials. I would like to do a 3-tier fondant wedding cake with floral decorations for my lovely sister, who is getting married in February( very hot climate). Can I use this chocolate receipe as base for this layered cake? Or have any problems with the climate? I mean , is it a firm cake for doing a 3-tier layered cake. Do you have any suggestions.
Hallo Karen, I am Rosemary from India. Thank you for your receipe. I would like to do a 3-tier fondant wedding cake with floral decorations for my lovely sister, who is getting married in February(very hot climate). Can I use this as a base cake for the tired cakes? What do you prefer? Do you have some suggestions? Will it be a problem, if the weather is hot?
Hello, when you mix the three different mixture do you use the electric mixer or a whisk?
Thank you 🙂