Late night baking

It was a Friday night. I had dinner with a friend who's just been back from a business trip. We were both stressed out from work and other stupid things in our lives and were seriously in need of a bitchy girly talk. After some delicious Thai food and a couple of drinks, we felt much better and headed home. 

By the time I got home, I wasn't dead tired or drunk as I normally would on a Friday night. So I decided to bake a simple chocolate cake. (or was I actually very drunk?)

Double chocolate loaf cake

Ingredients

• 175g butter
• 175g golden caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 140g self-raising flour
• Half tsp baking powder
• 100ml milk
• 85g ground almonds
• 4 tbsp cocoa powder
• 50g plain chocolate chips or chunks

Method

1. Heat oven to 160C
2. Line a loaf tin with baking parchment
3. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy
4. Beat in eggs, flour, almonds, baking powder, milk and cocoa powder until smooth
5. Stir in choc chips and scrape into the tin
6. Bake for 55-60 mins until golden and risen
7. Cool on a wire rack

It turned out nice, soft and light but I didn't take any photos. Well a chocolate cake is a chocolate cake...

Had a slice the next morning as breakfast. Brought some for the chef but he never told me whether he liked it. Did he even try it?

Brought some to my girlfriends on the next day when we went on a boat trip. I hope they liked it too. 

Gave the remaining to my parents when I went to have dinner with them. They both said it's better than the honeyed almond crunch cake I made last time. Then, two minutes later, mom said "Oh, you used to make tiramisu, right? Can you make that again some time?"

Sure. Mom, you're so cute.