Cakes
Easy chocolate loaf cake
Friends coming round for coffee or afternoon tea? Or just having a day when only chocolate cake will do? This five-ingredient chocolate loaf cake is the answer.
Ingredients
- 175ml/6fl oz sunflower oil
- 4 free-range eggs, lightly beaten
- 175g/6oz soft light brown sugar
- 200g/7oz self-raising flour
- 75g/2¾oz cocoa powder
- pinch salt
- 4 tbsp boiling water
Method
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Preheat the oven to 170C/150C Fan/Gas 3½. Grease a 900g/2lb loaf tin and line with a long strip of greased baking paper.
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Whisk the sunflower oil with the eggs and sugar for 2–3 minutes until pale.
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Sift the flour, cocoa and salt over the mixture, mix gently to just combine and then beat thoroughly. Add the boiling water and mix until smooth.
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Scoop the mixture into the prepared tin, spread level and bake for 45–50 minutes until the cake is springy, well risen and a wooden skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
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Leave to cool in the tin for 3–4 minutes and then carefully remove from the tin and leave to cool on a wire rack.
Easy chocolate loaf cake