Cake fail the first

I decided to start the project with the kind of cake I know i'm good at - a tea loaf.

Nutty Apple Loaf sounded good, if a little worthy, but then I read the recipe and realised it had chocolate in it, and was convinced.

I will freely admit that i'm not great at following recipes, but I stuck to this one to the letter. Maybe that was my downfall?

Whatever happened, it wasn't pretty. Tasty, but ugly.

The cake basically fell apart as soon as it came out of the tin. Not the best start