Quadruple Chocolate Loaf Cake

Recipe courtesy Nigella Lawson

Show: Nigella FeastsEpisode: Food to Go

Rated: 5 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (55)

RECIPE
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Cook Time:
1 hr 0 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
10 servings

Times:

Prep: 20 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 1 hr 0 min
Total:: 1 hr 20 min

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Ingredients

Cake:

1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup cocoa
1 1/3 cups sugar
1 1/2 sticks soft unsalted butter
2 eggs
1 tablespoon good-quality vanilla extract
1/3 cup sour cream
1/2 cup boiling water
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips or morsels

Syrup:

1 teaspoon cocoa
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
1-ounce dark chocolate (from a thick bar if possible), cut into splinters of varying thickness, for garnish
Special equipment: 2-pound loaf tin (approximately 9 1/2 by 4 1/2 by 3 inches deep), lined with greased foil, pressed into the corners and with some overhang at the top. Alternatively, substitute a silicon loaf tin, no foil lining necessary.

Directions

Take whatever you need out of the refrigerator so that all ingredients can come room temperature.

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F, putting in a baking sheet as you do so.

Put the flour, baking soda, cocoa, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla, and sour cream into the processor and blitz until a smooth, satiny brown batter. Scrape down with a rubber spatula and process again while pouring the boiling water down the funnel. Switch it off, then remove the lid and the well-scraped double-bladed knife and, still using your rubber spatula, stir in the chocolate chips or morsels.

Scrape and pour the batter into the prepared loaf tin and put into the oven, cooking for about 1 hour. When ready, the loaf will be risen and split down the middle and a cake-tester will pretty well come out clean.

Not long before the cake is due out of the oven (when it has had about 45 to 50 minutes), put the syrup ingredients of cocoa, water and sugar into a small saucepan and boil for about 5 minutes, to give a thick syrup.

Take the cake out of the oven and sit it on a cooling rack, still in the tin, and pierce here and there with a cake tester. Pour the syrup over the cake.

Let the cake become completely cold and then slip out of its tin, removing the foil as you do so. Sit on an oblong or other plate. Sprinkle the chocolate splinters over the top of the sticky surface of the cake

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recipe Quadruple Chocolate Loaf Cake
Maritza Los Angeles, CA 11-12-2009
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This cake turned me into a chocoholic!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Every phase of this cake is amazing...I never considered myself a chocoholic but found that I could not get enough of this... cake...smelling the cocoa and nibbling the chips for the mix, inhaling the dark chocolate aroma as it baked and the chocolate syrup that bubbled on the stove and got poured into the poked holes after it cooled off, and of course the ultimate chocolate bliss bite of all that together! I made it for the office today and it was a hit!Read more
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Michelle Phoenix, AZ 11-07-2009
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Yummy! - a few tips
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I added a 2nd tsp. of cocoa to the syrup, which made it taste a little more like dark chocolate. You want to bring the... sides of the foil around the pan up after it is done cooking to catch the syrup as you drizzle it on the loaf. After the syrup set, I was able to pick the loaf up by the foil, take it out of the loaf pan, and set it on a cooling rack (in the foil still) so it could cool faster. I served it with coffee ice cream . . . Wow!Read more
recipe Quadruple Chocolate Loaf Cake
chris elbridge, NY 11-01-2009
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A little advise please on the WONDERFUL CAKE
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I have this amazing smelling cake in the oven. I wasn't exactly sure what the recipe meant about putting a cookie sheeet... under the loaf so I put a foil one under it. Was this right. Also it seems to be taking a lot longer than an hour. Could this be becasue of the foil pan, or maybe becasue I used a stoneware baking pan. None the less, I can hardly wait for it to come out of the oven. The entire house smells wonderful. I am sure it is going to taste as wonderful as it smells. Thank you Nigella for sharing this recipe.Read more
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null null, null 10-25-2009
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Beautiful Gifts
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I've made this cake several times and my husband hates me - because he can't stop eating it. It gets better over several... days. This time I baked it in three mini loaf pans as gifts to neighbors. It doesn't take as long for the mini loaves to bake, but they are just as delicious. I'll make these for Christmas gifts and put them in a pretty basket. It's great with good vanilla ice cream.Read more
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null null, null 10-06-2009
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love you nigella
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

amaizing ... suitable for super chocoholic
recipe Quadruple Chocolate Loaf Cake
Lindsey Dallas, TX 10-05-2009
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Horrible!!
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

I love love love chocolate and this was horrible to me. I bake alot and love to try new things and have never beent his... disappointed by a recipe. My husband actually said how bad it was and that i should throw away the recipe!!!! Read more