{"id":25824,"date":"2021-06-26T18:54:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bakeschool.com\/?p=25824"},"modified":"2025-02-04T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T17:00:11","slug":"chocolate-loaf-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bakeschool.com\/chocolate-loaf-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Loaf Cake With Sour Cream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This easy chocolate loaf cake recipe is made with sour cream and cocoa powder for a deep chocolate flavour with a tender crumb. This is a great cake to slice for snacks or to serve with ice cream and berries for a more elegant, yet simple dessert!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The perfect chocolate loaf cake should be moist, with a bouncy, tender crumb inside, but should be sturdy and dense enough to hold together when sliced so that you can wrap slices as snacks for later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this chocolate loaf cake, I stuck to the classic 1-2-3-4 recipe which I love for bundt cakes<\/a>. This is a baking ratio<\/a> that is by volume, not by weight, so for 1 cup butter, you add 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour, and 4 eggs (note: 4 eggs is not a volume but still, makes it easier to remember 1-2-3-4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full 1-2-3-4 recipe is too much to fit a standard 9x5\" loaf pan, so this loaf cake is half of that, meaning \u00bd cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 \u00bd cups flour and 2 eggs.<\/p>\n\n\n[feast_advanced_jump_to]\n\n\n

What You Need to Make This Chocolate Cake<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this recipe, you will notice that the chocolate loaf cake is made with cocoa powder instead of melted dark chocolate. There are a few reasons why you would use cocoa powder instead of dark chocolate to make a chocolate cake<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. cocoa powder is 100 % cocoa solids, whereas dark chocolate usually is around 70\u201375% cocoa <\/strong>(less for semisweet chocolate). This means when you bake with dark chocolate, you would be adding less cocoa solids overall. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. dark chocolate has sugar added <\/strong>and sometimes dairy and other ingredients for flavour. This means when you bake with dark chocolate, you are adding more sugar to the recipe and less cocoa solids, actually.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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