Chocolate Pound Cake
Prep
15 mins
Cook
30 mins
Servings
8
Difficulty
Easy
This chocolate pound cake is my go to recipe when I want something indulgent but don't have all day to fuss in the kitchen. With just 15 minutes of prep and 30 minutes in the oven, you'll have a gorgeous, moist cake ready to enjoy. The cocoa powder not only gives it that deep chocolate flavor we all crave, but it's also packed with antioxidants that make each slice feel a little bit virtuous. Plus, using self raising flour means you don't need to hunt down multiple leavening agents, making this recipe wonderfully simple. It's the kind of cake that tastes like you spent hours baking when really it was effortless.
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Ingredients
- 200 gunsalted butter
- 400 gcaster sugar
- 1 tspvanilla extract
- 4eggs
- 400 gself-raising flour
- 100 gcocoa powder
- 1 tspsalt
- 120 mlmilk
- 1 tspbaking powder
- 100 gchocolate chips
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Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 180°C and grease a 9-inch loaf tin.
- 2
Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
- 3
Add the vanilla extract and eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
- 4
Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, salt, and baking powder in a separate bowl.
- 5
Fold the dry ingredients into the butter mixture alternately with the milk.
- 6
Fold in the chocolate chips and pour the batter into the prepared loaf tin.
- 7
Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- 8
Allow the cake to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before transferring it to a wire rack to cool completely.
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