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Chocolate Loaf Cake

Course Dessert
Author Sarah Mir

Equipment

  • 9*5 baking tin

Ingredients

  • ¾ cup butter, room temp
  • 1 ½ cup icing sugar
  • 1 tsp instant coffee
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • ½ cup cocoa powder
  • 1 ½ cup flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¾ cup milk (or buttermilk, either works here)

Nutella Glaze

  • ½ cup Nutella
  • 3-4 tbsp cream (start with 3 and milk works fine too)
  • 1 tbsp melted butter
  • ⅛ tsp salt (a TINY pinch)

Instructions

Cake

  • Preheat the oven to 350F and lightly grease and flour your pan
  • Optional but recommended: Whisk your dry ingredients - flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt together in a bowl and set aside
  • Beat the butter and icing sugar well until fluffy and well combined - approx 2-3 minutes
  • Add the instant coffee then the eggs one by one mixing well between additions
  • Mix in the 2 tsp of vanilla
  • Then add in your dry ingredients in two batches alternating with the milk - keep your mixer on low speed and mix until just combined
  • Bake the cake in the prepared tin until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean, check on it at 40 minutes. Mine usually take 40-45 minutes.

Nutella Glaze

  • Warm your glaze ingredients together in the microwave (or stove top) until just warm to touch and mix well. If it is too stiff to mix then you can warm it a little further or add more cream. Store in the fridge until it's time to use.
  • Let the cake cool to room temperature before glazing otherwise it will melt and go right into the cake which frankly will taste awesome, but just may not look so awesome!

Notes

If you don't have ¾ cup butter, then ½ cup butter + 3tbsp oil works too. I suspect this cake will work with half a cup of oil instead of the ¾ cup butter but I have NOT tested that theory yet
If you are not a Nutella person then you can always make a simple chocolate glaze by melting half a cup of chocolate chips with 3-4 tbsp cream and 1 tbsp butter!