Daddy's bday cake

Recently mummy haven been blogging often as she has been busy researching for a cake and frosting recipe for daddy's bday. Ever since she became a stay at home mum, she finds it meaningless to buy daddy presents as she will be using his $ for his present! so she has been trying to bake him a bday cake every yr.. last yr was oreo cheesecake and this year she wanna challenge something else so she decided to make a chocolate sponge cake with buttercream frosting!

Recipe for chocolate sponge cake

Ingredients:
3 eggs
90 g castor sugar
70g plain flour
20g cocoa powder
15g butter
2 teaspoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla eccense

Directions:
1. preheat the oven to 150 degree celcius (mummy's oven is rather hot thus she uses 150 for all cakes. u might want to try 170 degrees depending on your oven..)
2. crack the 3 eggs into a mixing bowl and mix with a electric hand mixer with medium speed. Slowly add in the sugar.
3. Increase the speed to high after all the sugar has been incorporated and continue to beat until light and fluffy (this may takes about 10-15mins). you should be able to 'draw' patterns which stays on top of the batter with your whisk (refer to the photos in the slideshow for consistency).
4. melt the butter and milk together in a small heat proof bowl inside the microwave oven or over a double boiler
5. Sift the cocoa powder and flour together
6. Add vanilla eccense and the sifted cocoa powder and flour (bit by bit) into the creamed mixture and fold them in
7. After mixture is well blended, add the butter+ milk and continue folding till well corperated (be careful not to over mix the batter). The batter should be very very light and resembles a chocolate moose
8. Pour the batter into a greased 18cm diameter round baking pan and set to bake for 40mins.

decorate it with buttercream

Chocolate curls

Ingredients:
2 chocolate bar of your choice

Directions:
Let chocolate bar soften a bit at room temperature and 'peel' with a vegetable peeler. depending on your preference of the chocolate curls' length, u can use the length or the width of the chocolate bar

** if the curls break during peeling, chocolate bar is still too hard. let it sit in room temperature for a while more. if chocolate bar starts to melt halfway while 'peeling', put it back into the fridge for a while before continuing with the curls.