Easy Chocolate Loaf Cake
A simple, one-bowl chocolate loaf cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting.
Ingredients
Cake
- 6 oz or 175g plain flour (all-purpose flour)
- 4 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda (bicarbonate of soda)
- 5 oz or 140g caster sugar (superfine sugar)
- pinch salt
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
- 2 eggs
- 5 fl oz or 145ml mild oil such as sunflower
- 5 fl oz or 145ml milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Frosting
- 8 oz or 225g cream cheese, at room temperature
- 3 oz or 85g icing sugar (powdered sugar)
- 4 oz or 110g chocolate, melted
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat your oven to 350F/175C and line a loaf tin with baking parchment.
- Sieve the dry ingredients into a large bowl and give them a quick stir to ensure it's all well incorporated.
- Add the wet ingredients and mix well.
- Pour the mixture into your tin and bake for around 45 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
- Leave in the tin to cool in the tin, then remove and top with the cream cheese frosting.
Frosting
- Beat together the cream cheese and sugar. Then pour in the melted chocolate and mix well. Spread over the cooled cake.