It's Cake Time!: Chocolate (Walnut) Brownie Cake

My friend Shirin has the best baking blog EVER.  Every mouth-watering entry is accompanied by photos of the process and her directions are straight-forward and easy to follow.  Although I have yet to try one of her delicious recipes (I lost my American measuring implements somewhere between Greville Road and Sutherland Avenue during The Move last year), I click on every update I receive from her in my Blogger Dashboard.

So this post is dedicated to Shirin, really, since she inspires me to bake - and not in those, pretentious-I-take-artistic-photos-of-my-creations-because-I'm-the-next-big-baking-blogger blog posts way, but a I-simply-love-to-bake-and-share-what-I-made way.  Did you follow that?  No, me neither.

Rambling aside, JK was off to a stag-do (read: bachelor party for all my American friends) yesterday so I had lots of girly free time on my hands, which translated into reading glossy magazines, taking a nap, watching Britain's Got Talent, then Britain's Got More Talent, then ransacking my cupboard and fridge for available items to bake with.  I found this great recipe on BBC Good Food (which I use a LOT) and threw in a handful of walnuts since I had some leftover from my last carrot cake venture.  I also used a loaf tin instead of a cake tin, because ... well, I felt like it.  This increased my cooking time by approximately 35 minutes, which had me yawning but catching the first half of one of my favorite rom-coms, The Holiday.  By the time Kate Winslet helped the little old guy back to his home and they had their "meet-cute" (if you're not familiar with the movie, you won't get this), the brownie-cake was ready. 

Good thing too, because an hour after I drifted off to dreamland, the boys stumbled in, drunk and happy to find a batch of warm brownie slices waiting on the kitchen counter for them, before passing out.