Chocolate Sherry Cake
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup sherry
- 1/4 cup water
- 4 tablespoons cocoa
- 1/2 pound butter
- 4 eggs, separated
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1 cup self-raising flour
Instructions
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 with vermicelli and cherries
