Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 6 Eggs separated
• 4 ounces Cooking chocolate
• 4 ounces Cream
• 16 ounces or 2 cups Butter
• 1 ½ cup Flour
• 1 ½ cup Caster sugar
• 2 tsp Baking powder leveled
• 2 tsp Vanilla essence
• 5 tbsp Coco powder

Ingredients for icing

• 4 ounces Icing sugar
• 6 ounces Chocolate
• 2 packets Fresh cream
• 1 tsp Vanilla essence
• 1 tbsp Cocoa powder heaped

Method for Cake

1. Cook 4 ounces cooking chocolate with ½ cup of cream till melted, remove, cool and use. Beat 2 cups butter, 1 ½ cup sugar and 2 tsp vanilla essence till fluffy. Add in 5 tbsp sieved cocoa powder, beat 6 egg whites very stiff.
2. Add to it the egg yolks and beat well together, add the beaten egg mixture to the butter mixture and continue to beat well. Now fold in the melted chocolate and cream mixture, lastly fold in the sieved flour and baking powder mixture.
3. Mix well, pour into 2 well greased and paper lined 9 inches sandwich pan and bake on 180 degree for 45 minutes. Remove cool completely. Spread 1 layer of cake in cake plate.
4. Moist with milk apply icing, sandwich the second cake, moist with milk, cover sides and top with cream, level properly, put in freezer for half hour, remove and put in fridge.
5. Method for Icing -  Melt 6 ounces chocolate with ½ cup cream and 1 tbsp heaped cocoa powder, remove and cool, beat remaining cream with 4 ounces icing sugar; fold in the dissolved chocolate mixture, chill for 10 minute and use.