What better on a Sunday Afternoon than:
Chocolate Ripple Teabread
You can see how great this teabread looks. Chocolate, chocolate and chocolate! Mmmm. I stuffed my face on the mixture and licked the bowl clean – it tastes amazing, being flavoured by mixed spice to give it a little extra.
No look closer at that picture. Go on. Stop being distracted by its delicious yummyness and focus on the flash glare.
Yes thats right – its the picture from the book. Sadly, our cake burned on top 20 minutes in to the 90 minute baketime. We had to slice the burnt top off (complete with chocolate pieces – I could have cried), wrap it up in tinfoil, then put it back in the oven for another hour.
Our cake is the “upside down” version, though contains the same chocolaty goodness inside, as pictured. We managed to stop it burning again by putting it in the bottom of the oven, at 20 degrees less, and covered in tinfoil (for the remaining hour). This isn’t the first time we’ve had such problems with the oven; normally starting the oven from cold works but sadly not this time.
Still, what remains of the cake tastes as it should, which is pretty good.
Who made it: I’m going to claim that Anna had the most input, but lets face it, either of us could have noticed that it was burning before it burnt!
Recipe: “Simply Cadbury’s Chocolate”, by Joanna Farrow, page 32.