Lucozade Loaf Cake

Another month, another Clandestine Cake Club (see the official blog here). This time Rodina came with me as a guest and there was no room for car troubles. The venue was a lovely little café kind of in the middle of nowhere next to the Lune Estuary called Café d’Lune. The cycle routes around this area (and as it turned out the simultaneous cycling event that was taking place that evening) meant that the theme was “On Your Bike”. I decided that in order to keep up your energy on your bike ride you would need an energy drink – Lucozade.

Method

I adapted this recipe for chocolate cola cake by removing the coke and cocoa powder and adding extra flour and Lucozade.

First the butter and Lucozade was melted together in a pan, then added to the other ingredients (flour, sugar, eggs, milk, baking powder) and mixed well. The mixture was very runny and poured really easily into my greased loaf tin. This was then baked in the oven for about 35 mins.

I used this recipe for the frosting. Basically Lucozade was added to normal butter icing. The finishing touch was some orange sprinkles.

As usual the cake was too big for any of my tins so it was carefully packaged on the plate and Rodina carefully looked after it on the journey to Cake Club.

Results

I think the cake was slightly undercooked. It was very moist (like a fudge cake) but perhaps a little too moist. This was possibly also due to me wrapping it up when it was still warm. I know my oven can cook things unevenly so I also turned the cake around half way through baking. There was some sinking in the middle so next time I will leave it longer until turning.

The flavour was very subtle but I think anything more would have been too much. The icing was really tasty! Overall I liked the idea of the cake and it seemed to go down well. I hope to try the chocolate one soon.

Score: 5.5/10

Soundtrack: Rodina telling me all about and playing Eurovision tunes