Ingredients:

• 250 gm                      Butter
• 225 gm                      Sugar
• 125 gm                      Flour
• 125 gm                      Corn flour
• 1/4  tsp                      Salt
•  4                                Eggs
• 1 tsp                           Baking powder
• 2 tsp                           Vanilla essence

For glaze:

• 150 gm      Dark chocolate
• 1 tbsp        Cooking oil

Method:

1. Beat butter and sugar using a hand mixer until soft.
2. Add vanilla essence, salt stirring all the time until you obtain a smooth and even mixture.
3. Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition.
4. Sieve the dry ingredients flour, corn flour and baking powder twice.
5. Mix the flour mixture in butter mixture and whisk till smooth batter.
6. Preheat the oven at 180 degrees.
7. Transfer the sponge mixture in loaf cake tin and bake for 20 minutes. Then make a length wise cut about 1 cm in the middle of the cake with a sharp knife. Put the cake back in the oven and reduce the oven temperature to 160 degree and bake for a further 45 minutes or till done.
8. Remove the cake from the oven leave in tin for 10 minutes. Then take it out and leave to cool completely on rack.
9. For the glaze melt chocolate with oil, stirring all the time. Coat the cooled cake with the glaze.