Chocolate Sherry Cake

• 1-1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup sweet sherry
• 4 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 cup butter
• 4 eggs, separated
• 1 tsp. vanilla essence
• 1 cup self-raising flour

1. Boil together sugar, sherry, water and cocoa.
2. Add butter to mixture when its boiled, let it dissolve gently.
3. Allow mixture to cool.
4. Separately beat the 4 egg yolks well and add to the above mixture with the vanilla essence.
5. Mix well.
6. Reserve 1/2 cup of this mixture for topping.
7. To the emaining mixture, add sifted flour and fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.
8. Bake in a greased cake pan 20 to 30 minutes at 180C/350F.
9. Remove from oven, slit cake in a few places and pour over the reserved topping.

sugar, sweet sherry, cocoa, butter, eggs, vanilla essence, flour

Taken from www.foodgeeks.com/recipes/17851 (may not work)