Serves: Makes one cake
Cooking time:  1 Hour

125 ml cocoa powder
250 ml boiling water
4 extra large eggs, separated
375 ml sugar
125 ml oil
5 ml vanilla essence
450 ml cake flour
15 ml baking powder
2 ml salt

Chocolate fudge icing
160 g (300ml) icing Sugar
125 ml cocoa
80 g Clover butter
100 g (120ml) castor sugar
50 ml water

• Preheat oven to 180ºC.
• Grease two 23 cm cake pans.
• Mix the cocoa powder with boiling water and leave to cool.
• Beat egg yolks while adding the sugar a little at a time.
• Beat until thick and creamy.
• Add the cocoa mixture, oil and vanilla essence and mix well.
• Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together.
• Mix into the cocoa mixture.
• Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold into mixture.
• Spoon into greased pans and bake for 25 to 30 min.
• Remove from oven and leave to cool on wire rack.

To make the chocolate fudge icing:

• Sift the icing sugar and cocoa together.
• Mix the water, Clover butter and castor sugar in a saucepan.
• Dissolve the castor sugar over low heat and bring to boil.
• After 1 minute, remove from heat and add the cocoa and icing sugar all at once.
• Beat until smooth and shiny.
• Pour over cake while still hot.
• Decorate with chocolate stars and chopped praline.

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• "I had my in laws over for supper last night. I rushed home from work to bake this cake for dessert. Everyone LOVED it! It was so nice and fluffy and the icing is delicious (i put on a very thin layer of icing). We polished off half the cake and they took the rest home. Brilliant recipe!"
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