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Nigella Lawson Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake sliced and spread out on marble slab.

Nigella Lawson’s Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake

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Nigella Lawson’s recipe for dense chocolate loaf cake, is moist, rich, and chocolatey. It is perfect for a snack or to serve for dessert.

  • Total Time: 55 minutes
  • Yield: 1 loaf 1x

Ingredients

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1 cup soft unsalted butter

1 2/3 cups dark brown sugar

2 large eggs, beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

4 ounces bittersweet dark chocolate, melted and cooled

1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup PLUS 2 tablespoons boiling water

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees, grease and line a 9 x 5” loaf pan with parchment paper, then place the loaf pan on a baking/cookie sheet pan.This will catch any drips or over flow.
  • In a small bowl combine the flour and the baking soda, mix well.
  • Cream the butter and sugar, with an electric hand-held mixer, or with your stand mixer, then add the eggs and vanilla extract, and beat well.
  • Next, fold in the slightly cooled melted chocolate. DO NOT OVERBEAT the batter, you want the ingredients combined but not a light fluffy batter.
  • If using bourbon add it now. Then gently add the flour mixture, alternately with the hot coffee or boiling water a little of each at a time until you have a smooth and fairly liquid batter.
  • Pour the batter into the lined loaf pan, leave at least 1 INCH of space from the rim to the batter or this loaf will flow over the pan, pour any excess batter into a small loaf pan(test the little loaf at 20 minutes), and bake for 30 minutes at 375.
  • THEN, Turn the oven down to 325 degrees and continue to cook for another 15 minutes. The cake will still be a fudgy inside, so an inserted cake tester or skewer won’t come out completely clean.
  • Place the pan on a wire rack and let the cake cool in the pan until completely cold. I like to leave it overnight. The loaf will sink in the middle because this is a very dense loaf cake.
  • Remove the cake from pan, slice and enjoy.

Notes

You can substitute hot coffee in place of the boiling water.

You can also add 2 tablespoons of bourbon to “kick it up.”

This recipe makes a lot of batter, in fact too much for a 9 x 5″ loaf pan. Do NOT OVER FILL your pan. Leave 1″ of space at the top of the pan and place the pan on a baking sheet in the oven just in case it over flows.

With the remaining batter make a smaller loaf or a little cupcake or 2.

 

  • Author: Elizabeth
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 45 minutes
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Baked
  • Cuisine: British

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