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CHOCOLATE SHERRY CAKE Recipe | |
Australian Cakes | |
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Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups sugar 1/4 cup sherry 1/4 cup water 4 Tablespoons cocoa 1/2 lb butter 4 eggs, separated 1 teaspoon vanilla essence 1 cup self-raising flour
Directions:
Boil together sugar, sherry, water and cocoa. Add butter to mixture.Allow mixture to cool. Separately beat 4 egg yolks well and add to above mixture with vanilla essence. Reserve 1/2 cup of this mixture for topping. To remaining mixture, add flour and fold in beaten egg yolks. Bake in greased pyrex dish 20-30 mins at 180 degrees C. Remove from oven, poke cake in a few places and pour over topping. Decorate | |