Quadruple Chocolate Loaf Cake
by fattydumpling
My sister, that dear girl, likes to make fun of my future. Or rather, she feels rather sympathetic towards my non-existent son.
Mommy, I’m going to school!
-Wait! You forgot your cookie!
No, mommy, I already have my cookie.
-Mommy baked another cookie for you, darling!
No, it’s alright. I also have my cake and my candy and my pie that you baked for me…
-And here’s one more cookie! Share it with your little friends.
My future child is apparently going to be one chubby little guy.
If my child does end up fat…what of it, sister? His physicality is just a symbol of my love. I am a feeder, and I’m proud of it. No child of mine will grow up in life without eating butter or sugar by the cupful. I will probably turn out rolly polly later in life too—but that’s just a bit more to love in the future. I like being squishy.
Hoho, with you as an aunt, sister, we both will be presenting this boy with so many sweets.
Then again…perhaps I want that non-existent boy to live past 35. All that yummy stuff might do bad things to his health. So…only a cup of butter and sugar a day instead of the usual 2kg. Fair?
It was a good friend’s birthday last week so I rolled up my sleeves to make a magnificent butter and sugar and chocolate concoction. This friend likes chocolate. This friend also turned 20. 20?! Oh goodness me, she is getting so much closer and closer to adulthood and maturity that I start reminiscing about the first time when we met as kids…2 years ago. She’s not a teen anymore. And has just entered the third decade of her life. (This is a moment of celebration, by the way, I’m not trying to make anyone sound old—not that I’m ageist.)
Nigella Lawson’s Quadruple Chocolate Loaf Cake sounded like it had enough chocolate in it to suit our taste buds. It was a fiiiine cake. I shaved a Cadbury burnt almond dark chocolate bar with a veggie peeler for the topping. I thought myself so clever at that moment. That illusion burst when I found out that a piece of spaghetti is not a good tool to poke holes in the cake for the syrup. Let’s just say that whoever finds the odd pieces of spaghetti in the cake wins a prize?
Mmm…with this cake under hat, I shall continue my journey of nurturing folk with butter and sugar. And chocolate.
I’m dying of salivation and hunger…gotta get my baker (aka boyfriend) to make this cake for me too
Oooh this has been on my to-bake list for years now! But I’ve never quite plucked up the courage to bake it, coz only the dad and I are chocoholics in the household. Does this keep well? I could consider having a slice after a meal every day ~haha!
Lol you don’t want your kid to be a diabetic… What if he grows up without a sweet tooth :O???
Yumm chocolate… But I hate it when the chocolate is bitter (even though I have a thing for dark chocolate) when it comes to pastries.
sounds fab. Where was this recipe last week when I needed something super chocolaty in which I could swirl marshmallow and caramel?
oh, hohohohohoohho! that second last picture makes me want to dive into the cake. so chocolatey! gah! did friend like it? looks so so good. but i always have to refrain from making chocolatey things back in toronto; mom does not like when i do :T
AND YES!! FAT BOY NEPHEW. I LUP HIM ALREADY.
I LOVE this loaf, makes me happy just looking at it…i would gladly chew on the strand of spaghetti to bite into this chocolate loaf,
ps..I like being squishy too, lol
sweetlife
This looks like one hard core chocolate cake and I like the idea of a loaf pan instead of the normal cake pan….btw how do you knw that ur future son will be chubby ??? …just joking!
Miz Dee: That’s so sweet, I am jealous of your possession of a baker.
ovenhaven: I know what you mean, only the kids in my household like the sweet stuff. Yeah, I believe that it keeps well–I just tore off chunks to munch on (every day) when I felt like chocolate.
brokenLOGIC: No, disease will be indeed be sad :( Haha, bitter chocolate, have you ever, as a kid, chomped on baking chocolate because, well, because it was chocolate and must have tasted good? I have bitter memories.
mybakingempire: Oh, that sounds divine, marshmallow and caramel…let’s put it all on a rice krispie treat.
shewhosleepswithstars: Woo, dive! Friend did like. Mom does seemed stressed out when she feels the oven on and smells something chocolatey. Oy, ha, the non-existent nephew probably lups you too, cool hip, young aunt ;]
sweetlife: It is a really happy loaf indeed, you make me happy for accepting the spaghetti pieces with it—being squishy is where it’s at, dude.
Tanvi: Hoho, my sister likes to speculate that my future son will be big because of all the sweets that I will bake–and expect him to finish up. Yep, this recipe went way chocolate overboard, thankfully, well.
oh my!! this looks so rich and chocolatey. i will definitely be making this. and i agree with you, the title of the recipe itself is enticing enough let alone the amazing pics you took. good post :)
Mariya: Goodness, it’s things like these, the chocolatey-ness of things, which makes me feel for people who’d rather not eat it. Because they don’t like it or whatnot. But then again, it’d be neat to taste what they do like because their affections have been placed elsewhere :]
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