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Quadruple Chocolate Loaf Cake Recipe

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Ingredients

1 tsp cocoa .
175 g unsalted butter .
275 g sugar .
100 g sugar .
2 eggs .
50 g cocoa .
for the syrup .
125 ml boiling water .
125 ml water .
175 g dark chocolate chips .
80 ml sour cream .
1 tbsp vanilla extract .
1/2 tsp baking soda .
25 g dark chocolate (from a thick chocolate bar) .
200 g plain flour .
for the cake

Directions

Step #1 Preheat oven to 350F, putting in a baking sheet as you do, & line a loaf tin (21x11cm) with baking parchment.
Step #2 Put the flour, eggs, sugar, vanilla & sour cream into the food processor/blender & blitz till a smooth, cocoa, baking soda, butter, satiny brown batter.
Step #3 Scrape down with a spatula & process again while pouring the boiling water down the funnel.
Step #4 Switch it off, remove lid & blade, then stir in the the chocolate chips.
Step #5 Scrape & pour this beautiful batter into the prepared loaf tin & slide into the oven, cooking for about an hr.
Step #6 When it's ready, the loaf will be risen & split down the middle -- but your cake skewer may come out a bit sticky, as this is a very damp cake -- this is a good thing.
Step #7 When the cake has had about 45 mins of baking, water, smokey, & sugar into a small saucepan & boil hard for 5 mins or more, until it reduces into a dark, put the syrup ingredients of cocoa, chocolatey syrup.
Step #8 Take cake out of oven & set on cooling rack & still in it's pan, pierce here & there with a skewer.
Step #9 Then pour the syrup as evenly as possible, which is not very, over the surface of the cake.
Step #10 It will run to the sides of the pan, but some will absorb in the middle.
Step #11 Once the cake is completely cold, remove this from pan & remove the parchment.
Step #12 Sit on oblong plate.
Step #13 Now take bar of chocolate & cut with a very sharp knife so that it splinters & flakes & falls in slices of varying thickness & thinness.
Step #14 Scatter these pieces all over the surface of the cake.
Enjoy the Quadruple Chocolate Loaf Cake recipe