If I had a friend in relationship turmoil, male or female...I would bake this beautiful cake, guaranteed to soothe and console. Alternatively, this is a super cake for celebrations of any kind...and other reasons for my being so in love with this cake are that you don't need a food processor ....and it's creator is Nigel Slater, whose culinary mind I utterly adore.

Gorgeous Goooey Chocolate Almond Cake

lightly grease & line a shallow 23-24 cm cake tin
melt 220g 70% dark chocolate in a bowl, resting over a simmering saucepan of water
when melted add a shot of strong coffee
put 200g chopped butter into the melted chocolate
turn the oven on to 180'C /Gas 4
sift 80g flour, 2 level tbsp cocoa, & 1 tsp baking powder in a bowl
remove chocolate butteryness from the heat
separate5 eggs
whisk the whites until they form stiff peaks
gently fold 200g golden caster sugar into the fluffy whites with a metal spoon
whisk the yolks, add quickly to the melted chocolate mixture
fold chocolate mixture into the egg whites
fold the cocoa flour mixture followed by 125g ground almonds
transfer to cake tin -try your best to keep air in the mixture
bake for 25 min -skewer should emerge clean

Allow to cool for 10 mins....enjoy with copious amounts of tea or a pot of coffee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ-uV72pQKI

Pure Imagination from the original Willy Wonka film.