Dragon's Blood Chocolate Cake

The Legend of Dragon's Blood Cake- This cake is incredible...life changing in fact...so life changing that it has been named "Dragon's blood cake" to scare off anyone undeserving of its amazing taste. 

When we were young and would go to parties or functions where this cake could be found, the adults at the party would tell the children that this exact cake was made from Dragon's blood. When we found out this shocking news we stayed well away from the cake...which, as planned, meant that there was fewer people for the adults to share the cake with. As a child this story was scary and freaky but now as an adult (who has tasted Dragon's blood cake), i think it is more ingenious and understandable:-) 

  

WARNING: This picture does not even nearly do this cake justice... 

 

Ingredients and Method:

Cake

2 cups flour

2 cups sugar

1 cup boiling water

1/2 cup oil

1/4 cup cocoa

115g margarine/ butter

2 eggs, lightly beaten

1/2 cup plain yogurt

1 t bicarbonate acid

1 t vanilla essence

1. Sift flour and sugar together in a bowl and mix them. 
2. In a pot on the stove melt together boiling water, cocoa, oil and margarine
3. Add this to the flour and sugar mixture and beat well with an electric mixer
4. Add lightly beaten eggs and yogurt to the mixture
5. Finally add bicarb and then vanilla to the mixture

     6.  Grease a large rectangular oven roasting pan with spray and cook or oil/margarine

     7.  Pour the batter into the pan and bake it at 180 degrees for 30 Minutes

Icing

115g margarine

2T cocoa

2T yogurt

2 cups icing sugar

1 t vanilla essence

 
1. In a pot melt together the margarine, cocoa and yogurt.
2. Sift in the icing sugar and vanilla. Mix this in well
3. Take the icing off the heat as soon as it is mixed
4. Pour the icing over the cake as soon as it comes out of the oven
5. Cut the cake into squares :-)