Chocolate chip loaf cake

Another day, another loaf cake. This time our chocolate cravings took hold so we made a chocolate chip chocolate loaf cake. I suppose it could be called a double-chocolate loaf cake as it has cacao powder in the batter as well as chocolate chips in it. 

Once again I tried to keep the sugar content a little lower and switched some of the fat content for greek yogurt. I have found that oil seems to work better in chocolate cakes for keeping the cake more moist compared to butter. 

Ingredients:

100g self-raising flour

25g cocoa or cacao powder

1 tsp baking powder

100g caster sugar

2 eggs

50g olive oil

50g greek yogurt

20g chopped white chocolate (or chocolate chips)

30g chopped milk or dark chocolate (or chocolate chips)

Strawberries to garnish

Drizzle of melted white chocolate to decorate if desired. 

Method:

Once again, as with the Basil, Lemon and Poppy seed loaf cake, the method is really simple. Perhaps just a little tricker because I mixed the wet and dry ingredients separately first.

1. Pre-heat the oven to 160C and grease and line a loaf tin. I used a loaf-tin liner and found that I didn't need to grease it. 

2. Mix all of the wet ingredients together. In a separate bowl mix the dry ingredients together except for the chopped chunks of chocolate. 

3. Then mix around half of the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Add the chopped chocolate to the remaining dry ingredients. The idea being that if they are coated with the flour and cacao powder it should make them less likely to sink in the cake when cooking. Then add the last of the dry ingredients with the chocolate chunks in into the main mixture and fold in to combine. 

4. Pour into the loaf tin and bake for 35-40 minutes at 160C (fan). It took 37 minutes in our oven. 

If you wish to you can melt a little white chocolate to drizzle over the top and garnish with some chopped strawberries.