Pyrex National Baking Week
Homemade Family Time
Mini Chocolate Loaves
Desserts
Cooking time:
15-30 minutes
Serves:
Makes 9
Preparation time:
15-30 minutes
Tags:
Ingredients:
- 100g Stork tub
- 100g Billingtons Golden Caster Sugar
- 2 Happy eggs
- 80g Plain Flour
- 20g Cocoa Powder
- ¼ tsp Baking Powder
- 1 tbsps Just Milk
- Chocolate Icing
- Chocolate Decorations
Equipment:
- Scales
- Mixing Bowls
- Oven Thermometer
- Spatula
- Mini-Loaf Pan
- Cooling rack
Method:
- Preheat oven to 160c fan/180c/Gas Mark 4.
- Grease the recesses of the mini-loaf pan with melted butter.
- Sift together the plain flour, cocoa powder and baking powder.
- Cream together the Stork and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs, one at a time with a spoonful of the sifted dry ingredients. Mix well.
- Fold in the remaining dry mixture, add the milk and stir to combine.
- Divide the mixture between the 9 recesses of a Flexi-Twist Mini Loaf pan.
- Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes until the tops are a pale golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the pan for five minutes before turning out and cooling on a wire rack.
- Once cooled decorate with chocolate icing and decorations.
- Tips: If your mini-loaves rise too much above the edge of the loaf pan, trim the tops when cooled before icing!
- For a flavour twist why not try icing with Strawberry Icing and topping with sliced fresh strawberries.