Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake - Nigella Lawson
Total Time: 1 hr
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Ingredients
- Servings: 8
- 225 g soft unsalted butter
- 375 g dark muscovado sugar
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 100 g best dark chocolate, melted
- 200 g plain flour
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
Recipe
- 1 preheat the oven to 190c/gas5. grease and line a 23x13x7cm cm (9x5x3in) loaf tin. cream the butter and sugar. add the eggs and vanilla, beating in well.
- 2 next fold in the melted and cooled chocolate, taking care to blend well but do not overbeat.
- 3 you want the ingredients combined: you don't want a light airy mass. gently add the flour, to which you've added the bicarb, alternately spoon by spoon, with 250 ml of boiling water until you have a smooth and fairly liquid batter.
- 4 pour into the lined loaf tin and bake for 30 minutes. turn the oven down to 170c/gas mark 3 and cook for another 15 minutes. the cake will still be a bit squidgy inside, so an inserted cake tester or skewer won't come out completely clean.
- 5 plaace the loaf tin on a rack and leave to get completely cold before turning it out. it improves if left for a day or so before eating. this cake will probably sink in the middle because of its denseness.
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