Loaf Cake

A Loaf Cake is a big hit in our household. My sister let me know a few days back that my blog does not have any recipe for a decadent chocolate cake. That was quiet shocking as I am a chocoholic of the highest degree.

So I frantically went through my gallery and Instagram feed to find this recipe for a dark chocolate loaf cake with ganache icing that I baked a few months back. This dark chocolate loaf cake is special in the sense that I made this for a dear friends birthday.

What is a Loaf cake made of?

Like most cakes, a loaf cake is made of four basic ingredients, flour, butter,eggs and sugar. It is called a loaf because of the elongated loaf tin in which the cake batter is baked in.

Ingredients for Dark Chocolate Loaf

Method

Loaf Cake

Recipe by giniaCourse: DessertCuisine: ContinentalDifficulty: Medium

Prep time

15

minutes

Baking time

30

minutes

Total time

45

minutes

Ingredients

• 3 eggs

• 1 cup raw organic sugar (100 gm)

• 1 cup Melted Butter (100gm)

• 2 tbsp Buttermilk/Curd

• Vanilla Extract 1.5 tsp

• 1cups All purpose Flour/ Organic maida ( 100 gm)

• ½ cup Milk powder(50gm)

• ½ cup Cocoa powder (50 gm)

• 1 ½ tsp Baking powder

• ½ tsp Pink Salt

• 40gm Melted Dark Chocolate

• Ganache Ingredients

• Dark Chocolate 100gm

• Butter 25gm

• Milk/Cream 2tbsp

Directions

• Beat 3 eggs with 1 cup organic raw sugar until frothy and thick.
• Add 75ml of the melted butter
• Sieve in the flour,milk powder, cocoa,salt and baking powder.
• Mix gently by cut and fold method.
• Add in the melted dark chocolate, buttermilk and remaining melted butter.
• Mix well.
• Pour into a lined and greased cake mould.
• Bake at 180 degree celsius for 30 minutes.
• For the Ganache Icing:
• Melt dark chocolate and butter either un a microwave (Several intervals of 30 secs) or by double broiler method. Add in the milk/ cream and mix until thick and shiny.

Recipe Video

Notes

• Cool the ganache in the fridge before icing the cooled down loaf cake.

So now my blog has a recipe for a decadent chocolate cake as per my sister’s wish.

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