Recipe#4054
Title: Chocolate Sherry
From: "Rita Effune" hawk2@iafrica.comNewsgroups: rec.food.recipes
Subject: Chocolate Sherry Cake
Date: 20 Nov 1997 08:46:22 -0600
Message-ID: <01bcf579$83b29ca0$95541fc4@Phawk2>
CHOCOLATE SHERRY CAKE
1 1/2 cups sugar1/4 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
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