Chocolate Cake Greek style (Sokolatopita)
A mouthwatering Greek style chocolate cake recipe (Sokolatopita) with ingredients you already have in your kitchen and no mixer required!
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 15 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2.5 cups all purpose flour
- 3 flat tsps baking powder
- 2 cups lukewarm water
- 2 cups sugar
- 1.5 cups cocoa powder
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- zest of 1 orange
- 200g/ 7 oz. dark chocolate
- 30ml milk
- 1 tbsp butter
Instructions
- 1
To prepare this Greek chocolate cake add in a large bowl the flour, baking powder, sugar, cocoa powder and salt. Whisk well using a hand whisk to combine the ingredients.
- 2
In the same bowl add the water, vanilla essence and orange zest and whisk well to form a cake batter. Be careful to scrape the flour from the bottom of the bowl.
- 3
Butter a 22×30 cm baking dish and pour in the chocolate cake batter. Bake on preheated oven at 170C/340F for about 30 min.
- 4
Remove the chocolate cake form the oven and let it cool for about 1-2 hours.
- 5
Prepare the sauce. In double boiler add the chocolate in small pieces, the milk and butter and stir with a spatula until the chocolate melts and the ingredients combine.
- 6
Use a fork to make some holes on the top of the chocolate cake and pour over the chocolate sauce.
- 7
Serve while still warm with vanilla ice cream. Enjoy!