Now for something completely different: Kentish Cake recipe

This weekend Rachel made Kentish Cake, a cake Mike's gran (Millie Felton) used to make and which he fondly remembers.  Early in our marriage, before she moved into a nursing home, I wrote down the recipe to try and make it for Mike and we make it every couple of years.

My original handwritten recipe is suffering from getting wet a few too many times, so I thought I would post it here to keep it safe.

Kentish Cake

Ingredients

For the cake:

• 4oz softened butter
• 4oz granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 0.5 tsp vanilla extract
• 4oz plain flour
• 0.5 tsp baking powder
• 1oz ground almonds
• 1.5 Cadbury flakes flaked

For the topping:

• Large pack of chocolate buttons 
• 1tbsp water
• 4oz icing sugar

Instructions

1. Set the oven to 150 C fan and grease/line a large loaf tin2. Beat butter until creamy, add sugar and cream together until light and fluffy. 3. Whisk the eggs with the vanilla and mix into the butter and sugar a spoonful at a time. 4. Sift the flour and baking powder then fold into the creamed mixture with the ground almonds and flaked chocolate.5. Transfer to the tin6. Bake in the preheated oven for 60 minutes until a cake tester inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes then remove from the tin.7. Place all the chocolate buttons on top of the warm cake until melting, use a palette knife to spread the chocolate across the top of the cake.  Allow to harden8. Make the icing by mixing the water and icing sugar.  Spread over the hardened chocolate and allow it to set. 
We slice the cake as you would a loaf of bread, it is irresistible on day one but even better on day two if you can control yourself the long.