What better way To celebrate #nationalchocolateweek on a Friday than to make a chocolate loaf cake! I mean it’s a no brainier, right? I am all about the freeze dried strawberries and raspberries, they look so cute as a decoration and more importantly they are absolutely delicious.
175g softened butter
175g brown sugar
3 eggs
200g self raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
110ml buttermilk.
4 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
200g dark chocolate chips
8 freeze dried raspberries
White chocolate chips to decorate
100g melted dark chocolate
Preheat oven to 180 degrees C
Mix all the wet ingredients together,
Mix the dry ingredients together
gradually add the wet to the dry – I do this in a Kitchenaid due to laziness but you can easily do it by hand.
Line a 900g loaf tin, pour in the ingredients and bake for 1hr 10 mins. Poke a skewer in to see if cooked. If it comes out clean then you have yourself a perfect cake.
Melt the chocolate – i do this in the microwave for 1 min.
Pour over the top of the cake and sprinkle with the choc chips and freeze dried raspberries
