Chocolate Cake With Chocolate Icing Recipe

• 7 Eggs
• ½ cup Butter (melted)
• ¾ cup Flour
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• ¼ kg semi-sweet Chocolate (shredded)
• 3½ cups Sugar Powder
• 2 tbsp Cocoa Powder
• 6 tbsp Apricot Jam
• 6 tbsp Double Cream

• Preheat oven to 220 °C.
• Grease a baking pan with little butter and dust with flour.
• Separate the egg whites and yolks.
• Beat eggs yolks with ¾ cup sugar and vanilla in a large bowl until thickened.
• Sift cocoa with flour in another bowl.
• Cut in butter and mix until you get fine crumbs.
• Mix egg whites with ¾ cup sugar in another bowl and beat until creamy.
• Add cocoa mixture and stir well gradually.
• Add sugar mixture and beat until well blended.
• Transfer the batter into the baking pan and bake for 20 minutes.
• Reduce the temperature to 170 °C and bake for another 10-15 minutes. Remove and cool.
• Heat chocolate in a saucepan, stirring frequently, on low flame until completely melted. Take off from heat.
• Mix cream with 2 cups sugar powder and beat until well blended.
• Slice the cake horizontally into 2 parts.
• Spread apricot jam over the lower piece and cover up with the top piece.
• Decorate the cake with chocolate icing.
• Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• Slice and serve.