Chocolate Olive Oil Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 6 eggs, separated
• 275 g caster sugar
• 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 cup self-raising flour, sifted
• 1 1/4 cups cocoa, plus
• extra cocoa, for dusting
• 100 ml warm water

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 160 degrees celsius.
• 2 grease and line 24cm springform pan.
• 3 place egg yolks, and 1 cup (220g) caster sugar in bowl/beater.
• 4 beat on high speed until light and fluffy.
• 5 on medium speed slowly add olive oil in thin stream.
• 6 add flour, chocolate and beat on low speed to combine.
• 7 mix in warm water. set aside.
• 8 in a separate bowl beat eggwhites until soft peaks form, then add remaining caster sugar, beat to combine.
• 9 gently fold eggwhites into chocolate mixture.
• 10 pour into cake pan.
• 11 bake approxmately 1 hour.