Chocolate cake

 Ingredients
250 g / 9 oz butter
1 bar dark chocolate
5 eggs
5 heaped tablespoons plain flour
150 g / 6 oz brown caster surgar

Separate the eggs, into two bowls
Put a pinch of salt into the egg whites and whip into soft
Add sugar to the yolks
Melt butter and chocolate in a pan on a soft heat
Remove from heat when melted
Add yolks and sugar mixture
Mix with handmixer
Fold in egg whites with wooden spoon
Gently fold in the flour and mix with handmixer
Put into caketin
Bake in oven at 170C for 40 minutes
Knifetest: still a little soft in middle

Chocolate butter icing
4 oz butter
2½ oz icing sugar
1 oz drinking chocolate (cocoa powder)
grated chocolate or similar decoration

Rub the butter, sugar and chocolate powder together
Spread over the cake.