Chocolate Delicious - Serves four to six.

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Ingredients:
4 eggs
150g butter (or margarine)
150g sugar
200g dark cooking chocolate
2 spoons flour (can be maize)
100g ground almonds
Preparation 20-40 minutes,
cooking time 20 minutes,
cooling time 20 minutes.

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 220 Celsius.
Break the eggs and separate the yolks.
Mix the yolks with the sugar in a large bowl until it is frothy.

Melt the butter and the chocolate separately (use a microwave or melt over boiling water).
Add melted chocolate tot he mixture of egg and sugar, then add the almonds, flour and melted butter.

Beat the egg whites until they are firm (almost making blocks in the mixer).
Carefully add the egg whites to the mixture, try not to break them up too much.

Grease a cake tin and put the mixture in it. Place in oven for 20 minutes.

Check it is cooked by sticking in a skewer, the end can be a little wet it is still cooked.
When done set aside to cool.

When cool turn it out of the tin.
Serve cold with custard or apricot marmalade.