Description
A beautiful, dense, chocolate loaf cake that can be eaten for dessert, as a breakfast treat with coffee, or as the base of a fantastic sundae or trifle.
Ingredients
- 1-½ cup Sifted Cake Flour
- 1-¼ cup Sugar
- ½ cups Cocoa
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoons Baking Soda
- ½ teaspoons Salt
- ⅔ cups Shortening (or Butter)
- 1 cup Buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 2 Eggs
Preparation
Preheat oven to 350ºF.
Sift dry ingredients into a large bowl. Cut in shortening with pastry blender.
Add buttermilk and vanilla. Beat for 2 minutes on low speed with a hand mixer or stand mixer, or 200 strokes by hand. Add eggs and beat again for 2 minutes.
Bake in a greased loaf pan 9x5x3 inches for 50 to 60 minutes.
