Sticky Date & Chocolate Loaf

For a while, there was the Clandestine Cake Club, with meetings in almost every town in the land. I loved it. Every month, a theme would be declared. Research would be done, and a brand new cake, usually one never before made would burst forth out of the oven. And then we’d meet up, in a secret location, and talk and eat cake. What’s not to like?

So the thing is, I love chocolate, I really do. But I’m just not that keen on chocolate cake. A really, really chocolatey cake is a rare thing to bake. And the theme for this particular cake club meeting was Chocolate.

So I went looking for an alternative angle, and discovered this courtesy of Singapore Shiokl which sounded a bit different.

My first attempt exploded out of my loaf tin which definitely wasn’t large enough, so I popped to Palmers and sourced a much bigger loaf tin, more akin to the dimensions called for by the recipe.

The recipe itself doesn’t ask for any icing, but I just thought that a little bit of water icing wouldn’t go amiss, especially as it was for Cake Club where everyone else’s cakes tend to be a vision of decoration. I’m not great at icing, but I’m there with the flavours.

And just sneaking into one of the pics is a chocolate and something else cake … all I remember is that it was absolutely disgusting. Chocolate and prune maybe? Don’t go there, just don’t.