CHOCOLATE SPONGE CAKE WITH CREAM AND CHOCOLATE TOPPING

CHOCOLATE SPONGE CAKE WITH CREAM AND CHOCOLATE TOPPING
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
½ cup boiling water
½ cup of cooking oil
1 cup of flour
1 Tablespoon baking powder
¼ cup cocoa
pinch of salt

Cream eggs, sugar and vanilla essence.
Mix the oil and boiling water and leave aside
Sift dry ingredients.
Add the oil mix and dry ingredients alternatively into the egg mixture. Mix all well together.
Bake at 180 ºC for 30 minutes.

For the topping
500 ml cream
2 Tablespoons of sugar
1 dairy milk slab of chocolate
1 punney strawberries

Mix the cream and sugar and whip until stiff.
Layer on cake and spread melted chocolate.
Decorate with strawberries.
Recipe posted by Yasmeen Ibrahim
Photo: Yasmeen Ibrahim