And what a yummy truth that eating was! Yes, the chocolate cake turned out well and here are the promised photos. Here it is, straight out of the oven.
Here’s the chocolate syrup bubbling away.
Here’s the cake, covered in syrup and now out of the tin. You can see it’s reasonably large, but it’s not as high as I’d have expected. That may have something to do with the cake pan size, it was slightly larger than specified in the recipe.
Finally, here is the cake (well, half the cake as I chopped it in half and froze one half for later), sprinkled with vanilla sugar and with a slice, ready to eat. Yum!
Overall I’m pleased with the result. Yes, I’ll definitely make this cake again. Many thanks to Nigella Lawson and her Quadruple Chocolate Loaf Cake recipe AND many thanks to Not Quite Nigella for her website which features many of Nigella’s recipes, tried, tested and photographed. As I opted not to do the final covering of chocolate shards and sprinkled vanilla sugar over the cake instead, my cake is merely a Triple Chocolate Loaf Cake, but still moist and heavenly.
Lorraine E said,
January 11, 2008 at 5:00 am
Congratulations! It looks fantastic
Now I feel like making this cake all over again 
desertgirl said,
January 11, 2008 at 5:21 am
Thank you!
Of course, we all know that chocolate does form part of a well-balanced diet! I’m amazed that in this heat I actually craved to make and eat this cake. But Nigella’s shows always, always make one feel like rushing into the kitchen to start cooking!
Lorraine E said,
January 11, 2008 at 6:02 am
I’ve clung onto the hope given to me by the finding that dark chocolate is in fact healthy and rich in antioxidants
Her shows make me very hungry-I only watch them before I am about to eat a meal, otherwise it would inspire too much between meal snacking!