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



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Submitted 6/13/05.
Source: my foles
Submitted By: Lee.M. Kaye
setters@internode.on.net
CHOCOLATE SHERRY CAKE