DEVIL’S FOOD CAKE …….HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL.

Ingredients.....175 gm of butter/ marg, 175gm of castor sugar, 3 eggs lightly beaten, 4 tbs of golden syrup, 50gm of ground almonds, 50gm of cocoa powder, 175gm of self raising flour, 150ml of milk. The frosting..... 1 egg white, 175gm of icing sugar, 1 tbs of golden syrup, 3 tbs of water, grated chocolate to decorate. Preheat your oven to 160 deg C. Grease and line a 20cm/ 8" round cake pan. Beat together the butter/ margarine with the sugar until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs and syrup, almond meal and cocoa powder. Fold in the flour adding enough milk to make a mixture with a dropping consistency. Spoon the cake batter into the prepared pan, smooth the top and bake in the preheated oven for about 2 hours or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Turn out on to a wire rack to cool. To make the frosting ; place all the ingredients in a small saucepan and heat over a low-medium heat and whisk until the icing stands in soft peaks. Remove from the heat and continue whisking until cool, then quickly spread over the cake, finish off the decoration with the back of a teaspoon, creating swirls from the centre of the cake. Decorate with grated chocolate.