Rene's Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 125 ml cocoa powder
• 250 ml hot water
• 4 large eggs
• 375 ml sugar
• 125 ml cooking oil
• 5 ml vanilla essence
• 450 ml cake flour
• 15 ml baking powder
• 2 ml salt

Directions

1. 1

   Heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

2. 2

   Prepare two cake pans of 20 to 23 cm diameter.

3. 3

   Mix cocoa en hot water until smooth and set aside to cool.

4. 4

   Mix egg yolks together.

5. 5

   Mix sugar together a little at a time and keep mixing until light yellow and spongy thick.

6. 6

   Mix the cocoa water, cooking oil and vanilla in to the egg mixture.

7. 7

   Sift the cake flour, baking powder and salt together and mix in to the liquid.

8. 8

   Beat egg whites until stiff and mix in to the dough mixture.

9. 9

   Place mixture in cake pans and bake for 20 to 30 minutes until done.