Chocolate Loaf Cake

This is THE most amazing chocolate cake... Very rich in chocolate and tastes great too. Many of you must have seen Nigella Lawson make this on one of her TV series. I got the recipie from her site, and its quite simple and quite heavy. She asks that you strew the chopped chocolate on top of the cake after the cake has cooled off, but I put it straight fromt the oven. That way when you cut it you get gooey melted chocolate almost like frosting on top of the cake!! The batter also tastes great!!

Ingredients:

200gm plain flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

50gm cocoa

275gm caster sugar

175gm butter

2 eggs

1tbsp vanilla

80ml sour cream

125ml boiling water

175gm dark chocolate chips

Syrup:

1tsp cocoa

125ml water

100gm caster sugar

25gm dark chocolate

Method:-

1. Preheat oven to 170 degree C. Line a loaf tin with greased foil and leave an overhang all around.
2. Process the flour, bak. powd, cocoa, sugar, eggs, vanilla & sour cream to get a satiny smooth batter.
3. Scrape down the sides with a rubber spatula and process again while adding boiling hot water.
4. Then add the chocolate chips and stir. Pour into the loaf pan and bake for an hour.
5. Make the syrup 5 or 10 mins before the cake is done. Place the sauce ingredients in a sauce pan and boil for 5 to 10 mins. It should be slightly thick, so boil longer if needed.
6. Take the cake out and poke holes on the surface. Pour the syrup evenly as possible.
7. Sprinkle with chopped dark chocolate. Cover the cake with the overhang and let to cool.

Enjoy!!