Double Chocolate Strawberry Loaf

For me Xmas time equates baking time, I guess it does the same for everyone but from the past 3 years that I have been running Sin-A-Mon as a bakery, even more so. The orders are plenty and this is the season when both me and my oven are working overtime. However this time around due to a lot of personal and health issues I didn’t take any orders but that doesn’t mean I am not baking. The child’s winter vacations have started and my kitchen is turned into a restaurant. He orders and I cook/bake. It’s so much fun and considering that I have had a very busy year, I am really thankful for this year ending bonding exercise. If you want to keep track of what I am cooking/baking for him, follow me on instagram here

So one of the orders that the child gave was bake something with chocolate and strawberry and we churned up a simple double chocolate strawberry loaf. Simple yet delicious I must add. The loaf is not too sweet and super moist. The sudden bite of chocolate pieces in it makes it extra special as far as I think. I baked two medium loaves and all it took was one evening for them to get over. These are essentially with egg but I think if you replace the 3 eggs with 3/4 cup of curd + 2 tsp of vinegar the recipe will work just as well. Also I used roughly chopped dark chocolate but you can easily sub that with chocolate chips, dark or milk depending on your preference. So here is the recipe.

Recipe – Double Chocolate Strawberry Loaf

What I used

• 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 3/4 cup flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 vanilla bean scraped
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 cup chopped strawberries
• 1/2 cup roughly chopped dark chocolate
• 1/2 cup sour cream

How I made it

• Pre heat oven to 180C and grease a medium sized loaf pan with butter. Set aside.
• Sift together all the dry ingredients namely whole wheat flour, all purpose flour, cocoa powder, salt, cinnamon & nutmeg powder and baking powder & soda and set aside
• In a bowl of your mixer, cream together butter and sugar till light and fluffy. This will take about 3-4 minutes.
• Now add egg one at a time, beating till it is fully blended.
• Add the sour cream and beat further for a minute and fold in the flour mixture to it.
• In the end fold in the strawberries and the chopped chocolate
• Pour the batter in the prepared pan and bake for 25-30 minutes till a toothpick comes out clean
• Wait for it completely cool before removing from the pan and slicing