Bake: Chocolate Loaf Cake

I made this dense, moist chocolate loaf cake a few days ago in one of those "I fancy some cake" moments. I am having those a lot at the moment! I have adapted this recipe from the original BBC Good Food one mainly due to the fact that I had neither ground almonds or chocolate chips, but I will also give you the original recipe link here for reference.

Ingredients

175g butter or margarine - I always invariably use Stork

175g caster sugar

3 medium eggs

175g self raising flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

100ml milk

4 tbsp cocoa powder (although I actually used drinking chocolate)

Chocolate spread or a little chocolate melted

You will also need a  2lb loaf tin and liner (or line it with baking parchment)

Method

1.Preheat the oven at 170C and line your tin.

2.Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl until light and then beat in the eggs.

3. Sieve in the flour and baking powder and mix well before adding the milk and cocoa powder. Pour into the lined tin and bake for 50 minutes.. Test with a skewer to make sure it comes out clean. If not, bake for a little longer.

4. When the cake is cool you can either drizzle some melted chocolate over the top or cover in chocolate spread. I used some delicious chocolate spread that my husband brought back from Italy.

The cake will serve 10-12 slices.

Love Mrs Jones x