If you haven’t tried Ina Garten’s famous chocolate cake, please do yourself a favor and add that to your to-do list! Her not-so-secret but game-changing ingredient is coffee. The coffee really brings out the intense cocoa flavor and we are huge choc-o-holics (and coffee fiends), so that is a win win! We used that wonderful cake as an inspiration for this chocolate loaf. There isn’t over powering coffee flavor in this; just an exaggerated chocolate taste. Put simply: it is TASTY.
What we love about this chocolate loaf is that it is deliciously moist and the perfect level of sweetness without being overwhelming. This is great to slice and enjoy with, you guessed it, some coffee!
Ina Garten-Inspired Chocolate Loaf
This loaf is great with coffee or as a dessert! We used Ina Garten's technique of including coffee in this recipe to bring out the chocolate flavors.
Ingredients
- 1 cup White Flour
- 1 cup White Sugar
- ½ cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 2 tsp Baking Powder
- 2 Eggs
- ½ cup Melted Butter
- ½ cup Unsweetened Oat Milk
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- ¼ cup Hot Water
- 1 tsp Instant Coffee
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Grease a loaf tin.
- In a large mixing bowl, add eggs, melted butter, oat milk, and vanilla extract. Whisk to combine.2 Eggs, ½ cup Melted Butter, ½ cup Unsweetened Oat Milk, 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- In a medium mixing bowl, add flour, sugar, cocoa powder, and baking powder. Whisk to combine.1 cup White Flour, 1 cup White Sugar, ½ cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder, 2 tsp Baking Powder
- Slowly add the dry ingredients from the medium mixing bowl to the wet ingredients in the large mixing bowl. Use a spatula or hand mixer on low to combine until there are no lumps and the batter is smooth.
- Dissolve instant coffee in the hot water. Add to batter mixture and stir until combined.1 tsp Instant Coffee, ¼ cup Hot Water
- Bake for 45-50 minutes. Insert a toothpick into the center of the loaf cake. The loaf cake is done when the toothpick comes out clean.
- Let cool for 15 minutes in the pan before removing.
Notes
Dairy milk or almond milk can be substituted for oat milk in this recipe!