Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

For Cake

Flour 11/2 cups

Corn flour 1/2 cup

Castor sugar 2 cups

Cocoa powder 3/4 cup

Baking powder 2 tsp

Egg 4

Milk 1 cup

Oil 1 cup

Icing

Castor sugar 1/2 cup

Egg 1

Butter 2 tsp

Cocoa Powder 2 tsp

Milk 2tsp

Method:

Separate egg white and yellow yolk. Beat yellow yolk and sugar till fluffy. Wash the beater well (fat content in the yellow yolk will interfere with beating of egg white). Next beat the egg white till fluffy. Mix both gently. Sift together the dry items (flour, salt, cocoa powder and baking powder). Mix the dry items to the beaten yolks alternating with milk. When the mix is done add the oil in a continous stream while mixing simultaneuosly. Transfer the mix into a cake tray and bake in a pre heated oven for 45-60 mins.

Icing: (borrowed from Dollys delights)

Beat egg and add milk, sugar, cocoa powder. Cook slowly over low flame stirring continously.When the mixture comes to boil remove from flame, add vanilla essence and beat to spreading consistency.