Name: Chocolate Loaf with Luscious Cream Cheese Icing
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 55 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 150 g Self-Raising Flour (Sifted); 75 g Cocoa Powder; 225 g Soft Butter; 4 Large Eggs; 225 g Caster Sugar; 1 tsp Baking Powder; 90 g Cream Cheese (I use Full-Fat Philadelphia as I find the consistency best for making the icing); 225 g Icing Sugar (Sifted); 60 g Soft Butter

Chocolate Loaf with Luscious Cream Cheese Icing

All the snow this week brought by the 'Beast from the East' has got me thinking about a family ski-ing holiday in the Alps a few years ago. One of the foodie highlights was a gorgeous chocolate cake topped with cream cheese icing. It was the first time I have tried it on a chocolate cake and I was converted! It also made me wish I could speak French so I could ask for the recipe!

This simple Chocolate Loaf with a luscious Cream Cheese Icing is my take on that cake. It is prepared and ready to bake in just a few minutes but will take around an hour to bake and then you need to allow it to cool before adding that gorgeous icing. There is plenty of icing in this recipe and if you have any left over, store it in a box in the fridge to accompany dessert or pudding.

Course Dessert, Snack

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 55 minutes

Servings 10

Author Boutique Brownies

Ingredients

Chocolate Cake Ingredients

150 g Self-Raising Flour (Sifted)
75 g Cocoa Powder
225 g Soft Butter
4 Large Eggs
225 g Caster Sugar
1 tsp Baking Powder

Cream Cheese Icing

90 g Cream Cheese I use Full-Fat Philadelphia as I find the consistency best for making the icing
225 g Icing Sugar (Sifted)
60 g Soft Butter

Instructions

Chocolate Cake Instructions

Preheat the oven to 170 degrees
Line a large Loaf tin with a paper liner
Mix all the ingredients together thoroughly in a large bowl. I use a Stand-Mixer with the paddle attachment but the chocolate cake will also work well mixed by hand
Pour the batter into the tin and smooth
Bake in the oven for approximately 50 minutes to an hour. Keep an eye on it and test the cake is baked using a skewer or cocktail stick. They will be come out clean when pushed into the centre of the cake and the cake will spring back when lightly pressed

Cream Cheese Icing

Mix all the ingredients together thoroughly in a large bowl. Again I use my mixer but you can beat the icing by hand although it may take at least 5 minutes
The icing will lighten in both colour and texture and become really smooth and creamy in consistency
Once the cake is entirely cooled, remove from the tin and spread the icing on top
Enjoy your freshly baked Chocolate cake with that luscious cream cheese icing!

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