Auntie Emma's Chocolate Cake
125g Butter
125g Sugar
125g Grated chocolate
2 Tablespoons. flour
4 Eggs, separated
125g Grated almonds
1 Teaspoon baking powder
½ Teaspoon Vanilla essence
Cream together the butter and sugar. Separate the eggs, gradually mix the yolks into the creamed butter and sugar and whip the whites until they form stiff peaks in a separate bowl. Add vanilla, chocolate, and almonds to the butter, sugar and egg mixture and mix well. Sive flour and baking powder over the mixture and then gently fold in the egg whites in 3 – 4 stages.
Bake in a 20 cm round tin at 180°C for about an hour or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean and the cake does not wobble when shaken gently. Leave out too cool and remove from the tin when cold. Dust with icing sugar before serving.