Sponge cake made in Cocotte

Luisa Morón, from Cocinando con mi carmela , has prepared an easy and quick recipe to make in a Le Creuset cocotte , for all of us who want to get all the juice out of this utensil that we love so much. Do you dare to try it?

Since I have the cocotte at home I make all my stews in it, there is nothing like a stew made little by little, like in the old days. I understand that now we have less time, but there is no color. Lately I had pending to cook a cake in a cocotte , why not try it, I had also visualized several recipes on the net. I got to work and here it is. The biscuit, as we call it in Spain, we all know that it is a type of dough that we use in confectionery to make sponge cakes and cakes. The basic ingredients, flour, eggs and sugar. We can find many variants. In this case I propose a cake with a light chocolate flavor. If you like it a lot, adding more cocoa is enough.

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 275g of sugar
• 100ml of whole milk
• 275g of sunflower oil
• 325g of pastry flour
• 1 packet of yeast
• 2 teaspoons cocoa powder, to give color and flavor

Preparation

1. We beat the eggs with the sugar in a food processor until we see that they increase in volume and fluff up.
2. While we mix the flour with the yeast and sift. We booked. Add the milk, continue beating and the oil in the form of a thread.
3. Add the reserved flour to our previous mixture. We will beat this mixture at a fast speed for about 3-4 minutes. Once our mixture is ready, cover and reserve for an hour in the fridge.
4. Preheat the oven to 200º, introduce the cocotte with a lid. When the oven is hot, we remove the cocotte with the help of some rags or gloves. We line the base with baking paper or paint our base and walls with butter.
5. We add our dough. We put the cocotte in the oven. We bake for the first 15 minutes at 200º, once this time has passed we bake at 185º for about 35-45 minutes depending on the oven.
6. Remove the coccotte from the oven, remove the lid and let cool before unmolding it. When it's cold, let it cool on a wire rack and it's ready for breakfast or a snack.