Chocolate syrup cake

A moist cake is always a winner... This one was discovered on Facebook and it's WOW

Ingredients for cake:

1½ cups flour

1½ cups sugar

45ml cocoa

¼ cup of oil

¼ cup boiling water

6 eggs separated

½ teaspoon salt

15ml baking powder

5ml vanilla essence

Method:

1.       Mix flour, cocoa and sugar together.

2.       Add oil and boiling water and stir to dissolve the sugar.

3.       Stir in egg yolks then salt, vanilla and baking powder.

4.       Beat egg whites till stiff and fold gently into the mixture.

5.       Pour into large greased oven dish and bake at 180 degrees C for 

          1 hour.

Ingredients for Syrup:

1 cup boiling water

1 cup sugar

10ml  coffee powder

5ml  vanilla essence

Ingredients for top:

1 tin caramel

250 ml fresh cream

flake/peppermint crisp chocolate

Method:

1.       Boil these together for 5 minutes (or 2 minutes in the microwave).

2.       Pour syrup over the cake while it is warm.

3.       After allowing cake to cool, smear with a tin of caramel, followed by          whipped cream.

4.       Smear the two toppings together to make a marble effect.

5.       Decorate with pieces of broken Flake or peppermint crisp