Unfortunately I have not brought you a winner here folks. The bread isn't bad but but it is sickly sweet and intensely lemon. I thought it would be a nice breakfast treat but this is definitely more of a dessert loaf.
The recipe comes from The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook by Elinor Klivans. The book is cute and filled with lovely pictures which I have thumbed through many times. This is my first foray into trying the recipes though and the result is unimpressive. The experience has made me come up with a new rule for my blog though...if a book produces 2-3 bad recipes in a row I must move on and chock it up as a lost cause. Anybody can make it look good in print, but we are looking for results here!
When I made the bread it called for a lemon syrup to be poured over it as soon as it comes out of the oven. Against my better judgment, I followed this step and I think it was definitely unnecessary and did not add anything of value to the final product. It actually may be the downfall of the loaf cake. I hesitated but then went back to my aim of this project and that is to try the recipe as it is written. I can change it the next time, if it makes the cut, but the first go 'round is a learning experience. Besides, one of these times that extra step may be exactly what the goodie needed!
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