Almond, olive and raspberry loaf cake

“If you need a little more joy in your life, and by joy I mean homemade cake, loaf cakes are for you. Every time I bake a loaf cake I rejoice in how easy and no-fuss they are to put together, yet so satisfyingly tasty, sliceable and storable. A cake for real life. It’s probably a good thing that I forget all this for weeks at a time before making another one, because otherwise I might roll down the street. What’s more, loaf cakes are just the right size to be entirely acceptable for baking if you live on your own, like I do; big round cakes tend to stay sulking in your cookbook until there’s a birthday and you have an excuse to make one for friends. You need no excuse to make these. ”