Easy chocolate loaf cake
Contributor
"Moist, chocolaty, and delicious, this is our easiest chocolate cake recipe. Made in a loaf pan, it’s just about guaranteed to be a success. The chocolate glaze helps lock that moisture in the cake and little chocolate chips baked in add variety to the slice."
Difficulty
Easy 👌Preparation
Baking
Resting
Ingredients
Utensils
oven, hand mixer with beaters, loaf pan, bowl (large), bowl, rubber spatula, pot, heatproof bowl
How-To Videos
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Nutrition per serving
Step 1/3
- 33⅓ g butter
- 30 g brown sugar
- ⅓ tsp vanilla sugar
- ⅛ tsp salt
- ½ eggs
- 1⅔ tbsp milk
- 33⅓ g flour
- ⅜ tsp baking powder
- 10 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 8⅓ g chocolate chips
- butter (for greasing)
- flour (for dusting)
- oven
- hand mixer with beaters
- loaf pan
- bowl (large)
- bowl
Preheat the oven to 175°C/350°F and grease and flour a loaf pan. In a large bowl, beat the butter, brown sugar, vanilla sugar, and salt until fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, then stream in the milk while mixing. In a separate bowl mix the flour, baking powder, and cocoa. Add the dry mixture to the wet while mixing on low speed until well combined. Add the chocolate chips and mix briefly to combine.
Step 2/3
- rubber spatula
Transfer the batter to the prepared loaf pan, smooth with a rubber spatula, and bake in the preheated oven for approx. 60 min. Remove the cake from the oven, and let cool for approx. 30 min.
Step 3/3
- 16⅔ g bittersweet couverture chocolate
- pot
- heatproof bowl
Meanwhile, melt the bittersweet couverture chocolate over a double boiler. Once cake has cooled, remove from the loaf pan and cover the top evenly in melted couverture. Enjoy!
Enjoy your meal!
