Bakery Style Chocolate Loaf Cake
This chocolate loaf cake recipe yields a tall, bakery style loaf studded with tiny bits of hazelnuts.
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- ¾ cups unsalted butter (softened (170g))
- 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar (250g)
- 2 eggs plus 1 yolk
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup ground hazelnuts (125g)
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose or rye flour (if Rye, 195g, 180g if AP)
- ⅔ cups dutch processed cocoa (70g)
- 1 ¼ cups kefir or buttermilk (310g)
- ⅔ cup organic powdered sugar (sifted)
- 3 tablespoons dutch processed cocoa
- 3-5 tablespoons heavy cream (milk or even kefir)
- Pinch fine sea salt
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease and line a pullman loaf pan with parchment paper. If not using a pullman you can make two shorter loaves or one loaf and some muffins.
- 2
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter, sugar, baking powder and soda and salt for at least 5 minutes - until very light and fluffy.
- 3
Add the eggs and yolk and beat for another 3 minutes, scraping down as needed, batter should be very smooth.
- 4
Add the ground nuts, flour and cocoa and mix it in with a spatula (to avoid dry ingredients making a mess).
- 5
With the mixer on, pour in the kefir. Scrape the bowl as needed and run the mixer until you have a smooth batter.
- 6
Pour the batter into the prepared ban(s).
- 7
Bake for 65-75 minutes for the pullman loaf. If using a standard-size loaf pan, check the cake at the 50 minute mark. In both cases the cake is done when pressed at the top and it springs back (or use a cake tester).
- 8
Let the cake cool for a few minutes in the pan then turn it onto a cooling rack.
- 9
Once it’s completely cool make the glaze: whisk all the ingredients together in a bowl. Add more heavy cream if it’s very thick, add more powdered sugar if it’s too loose. Try to get the consistency of spreadable but not overly drippy.