Beat:
8 eggs
1 1/3 cups castor sugar until light and fluffy
 
Then add:
2 cups flour
5 tsp baking powder
3 Tbsp cocoa
To be sifted 3times
 
Gradually add:
1 cup oil
1 cup warm water
 
Method:
Pour into a well greased and lined oven tray. Bake in a moderately hot oven until done. Remove from oven and cool on a rack. Cut into squares. Make a chocolate icing. Ice the sides with icing and roll in roasted coconut. Pipe stars around the top edges of cake. Pour some melted chocolate in the centre
 
Icing:
Butter
Icing sugar
Cocoa
Make a mixture of equal amounts of cold water and hot milk (+- ¼ cup lukewarm milk and water mixture). Add a tsp of mixture at a time until a soft icing is formed.