Help me save the cake!

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Helped son make Nigellas chocolate loaf cake for his gf birthday. He was so excited about doing it. Has now gone out, leaving me to take it out of the oven.

Just realised we left out the melted chocolate. Had thought it was a bit runny and wondered silently why

Would it be totally weird without. We can slather the melted chocolate on top and chill it.

He needs to get it back to uni in a suitcase tomorrow morning

I don't want him to know we've made a mistake. We were so busy talking we obviously missed that step and I didn't realise till i went to wash up.and saw the saucepan complete with melted chocolate ....

Is it this recipe?

alexandracooks.com/2014/10/10/nigella-lawsons-dense-chocolate-loaf-cake-with-booze-and-coffee-plus-two-fair-trade-giveaways/

If it is then the cake will likely just end up as a vanilla sponge, it won't be as moiat and dense as the recipe. Melted chocolate on top might end up quite dry when it hardens. Can you buy cream? Chocolate ganache would probably be good. Or if you've got butter and icing sugar you could do a chocolate buttercream.

If the cake has domed while baking you can level it and taste the offcuttings the top will be covered with icing anyway so appearance wise it doesn't matter.