Ebony and ivory

Live together in perfect harmony :-)

I made a yummy chocolate and vanilla dessert today. It was so much work though so I really felt I earned ever mouthful in the end :-)

CHOCOLATE SAUCE

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup of cocoa
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 tsp vanilla essence

Method

• Bring all the ingredients to the boil in a saucepan for approximately 2 minutes

CAKE

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups self raising flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 3/4 cup cocoa
• 80g margarine

Method

• Preheat your oven to 180C and lightly grease 2 pans
• Add butter and sugar in a bowl and mix well
• Add the flour, eggs, vanilla essence and milk and mix
• Pour half of the mix in one of the prepared baking pans
• Add the cocoa to the left over batter, mix well and pour into the second pan
• Bake for approximately 25 minutes
• Once cakes have cooled, take them out the pans and place on a chopping board
• Using a cooking cutter, cut out a few shapes (I got six out of each cake)
  

• I started with the vanilla first and then added a bit of the chocolate sauce and then did the same with the chocolate cake

• Another layer of vanilla cake and chocolate sauce
• I iced the entire thing with creamed cottage cheese and icing sugar and dusted with cocoa powder