Coffee & Chocolate Loaf

As our starting cake, and as inexperienced bakers with geriatric equipment, we chose a easy loaf cake with only five steps to follow. The preparation of the mixture took only fifteen minutes and was straight forward and idiot proof, which is lucky!
Taking the extraordinary amount of time to cook of an hour; plenty in which to worry that our oven would start an uprising and turn against us by destroying everything put inside it, it finally came out, looking perhaps a little charred on the edges but alive none the less! It was light and airy inside with a deep, bitter flavour of pure chocolate. Overall a triumph!
Would definitely recommend this divine dark creation but would advise keeping a close eye on it in the final stages of cooking to get it on before it crisps.
Below on the left is the image from the cook book and next to it is our attempt decorated with a light dusting of icing sugar and a few coffee bean (most certainly not there to hide the crispy bits).
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