Chocolate Fudge Loaf Cake!

A Thick, Fudgey and Delicious Chocolate Fudge Loaf Cake, topped with Luscious Chocolate Fudge Buttercream Frosting, and more! 

Loaf cakes… loaf cakes… I wish I’d known about your popularity before this past year, otherwise I would have done more recipes sooner. I honestly cannot get my head around how popular my loaf cake recipes have been! So, here is another.. 

My Terry’s Chocolate Orange Loaf Cake, and my Lemon Drizzle Loaf Cake have been super popular recently – and I love it! Although, I have had request after request for a really lovely, dense, fudgey and amazing chocolate fudge version, so here it is! 

I couldn’t resist this from the beginning because you all know how much I adore a chocolate fudge cake. My Chocolate Fudge Cake Traybake and the Cupcake version have always been popular, but nothing is as popular as the layer cake version! They all directly inspire this one, as they are all based around the same recipe!

As you may be aware, a classic and easy chocolate cake is based around five ingredients, usually. Flour, cocoa powder, eggs, butter and sugar – they make a chocolate Victoria sponge style cake, and I use that style of recipe all the time in my various bakes.. but this one is very very different. 

This sponge recipe uses ELEVEN ingredients, so quite different. Flour, cocoa powder, butter, eggs and sugar are still all there, but so is instant coffee, water, dark chocolate, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, and buttermilk. This will sound a bit extreme, but trust me – it’s worth it. 

This cake recipe is very easy to make. You need to melt the dark chocolate and butter together until smooth – like you would for the base of a brownie mixture – and dissolve the coffee into the water.

YOU CAN’T TASTE THE COFFEE in the end results.. so PLEASE, trust me here, and use it. The coffee is designed to bring out a rich and delicious chocolate flavour. It’s 100% worth it!! 

Instead of self raising flour, you use plain flour, baking powder, and bicarbonate – they react with the other ingredients and create the texture you are after! You whisk the dry ingredients together with the sugar into a bowl with just a spatula or something – you really do not need or want to use an electric mixer here. 

You then whisk the eggs and buttermilk together – buttermilk is there to react with bicarbonate to create a rise in the cake – it’s very different to your regular use of self raising flour!

However, if you don’t want to buy a pot of buttermilk (which is found with the creams in the uk) you can make your own using whole milk (full-fat) and whisking in 1tbsp of lemon juice and leaving it to sit. It will look split almost, but that’s what you want!

You then combine the three different mixes together, with a whisk – stir as little as possible, pour into the tin and bake! As it’s a loaf cake, it will take a long time to bake – loaf cakes are similar to bundt cakes in that sense.

I use my favourite 2lb loaf tin as normal, but they can also vary in size (never understood why?!) – so if you think your tin is too full, make a few cupcakes with the spare mix. I usually fill my tin up to about 3/4 full, so by the time it rises, the tin is full! 

For the frosting, I used the same idea as the best ever frosting ever – evaporated milk being the key ingredient. The only thing is that yes you will have some evaporated milk leftover, but don’t worry, you can freeze it! 

With loaf cakes I just like to slather the frosting all over the top, or pipe, but it’s up to you – I often use some strawberries and some more chocolate goodies to decorate and it’s done, but that’s up to you – sometimes just chocolates are good! It’s a bit more effort with the ingredients, but otherwise, it’s such an easy cake to bake! I hope you love it! 

Chocolate Fudge Loaf Cake!

A Thick, Fudgey and Delicious Chocolate Fudge Loaf Cake, topped with Luscious Chocolate Fudge Buttercream Frosting, and more! 

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Category: Cake

Type: Loaf Cake

Keyword: Chocolate

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour

Cooling Time: 4 hours

Total Time: 5 hours 30 minutes

Servings: 12 Slices

Author: Jane's Patisserie

Ingredients

The Cake

• 175 g Dark Chocolate
• 175 g Unsalted Butter
• 2 tsps Instant Coffee
• 100 ml Boiling Water
• 135 g Plain Flour
• 25 g Cocoa Powder
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/4 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
• 300 g Light Brown Sugar (or caster sugar)
• 3 Medium Eggs
• 75 ml Buttermilk

The Frosting

• 125 g Unsalted Butter (room temp - not stork/spread)
• 250 g Icing Sugar
• 25 g Cocoa Powder
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla (optional)
• 50-75 ml Evaporated Milk

Decorations

• Sprinkles
• Chocolates

Grams - Ounces

Instructions

For the Cake

• Preheat your oven to 180C/160C Fan, and line a 2lb loaf tin!
• In a microwave proof bowl, add the chocolate and butter and heat and mix until melted. I usually do 30 second bursts! 
• Add the coffee granules to a mug, and pour over the boiling water and mix till smooth - add the coffee mix into the chocolate/butter and mix until smooth. 
• In a separate bowl, add the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and sugar to a large bowl and whisk till distributed. 
• In another bowl, mix together the buttermilk and eggs. 
• Add the three mixes together - I pour the chocolate/coffee mix and the egg/buttermilk mix into the dry ingredients and fold until smooth. You do not need to use a stand mixer as you may over-mix it.
• Pour the mixture into the lined 2lb loaf tin - bake in the oven for 55-60 minutes, or until baked through!
• Leave to cool fully once baked!

For the Frosting

• Make sure your butter is at room temperature!
• Beat the butter on it's own for a few minutes to soften!
• Add in the icing sugar and cocoa powder 1/2 at a time, and beat until combined.
• Add the vanilla, and then the evaporated milk a little at a time beating fully in-between each go!

Decoration!

• Slather the frosting onto the top of the loaf cake, and then decorate how you want - chocolates and more!
• Sprinkle on your favourite sprinkles and enjoy! 

Notes

• This recipe is based on my Chocolate Fudge Cake and Chocolate Fudge Cupcakes with a few changes to suit the loaf cake!
• I used this 2lb loaf tin as always!
• The evaporated milk cannot be switched to condensed milk. 
• PLEASE USE THE COFFEE - it just makes it taste more chocolatey, it doesn't taste of coffee. 
• You can make your own buttermilk with 75ml full-fat milk, and 1tbsp of lemon juice. 
• This cake will last for 3-4 days, at room temp. 

Nutrition Facts

Chocolate Fudge Loaf Cake!

Amount Per Serving

Calories 520 Calories from Fat 261

% Daily Value*

Fat 29g45%

Saturated Fat 17g106%

Cholesterol 97mg32%

Sodium 68mg3%

Potassium 301mg9%

Carbohydrates 64g21%

Fiber 3g13%

Sugar 49g54%

Protein 5g10%

Vitamin A 710IU14%

Vitamin C 1mg1%

Calcium 87mg9%

Iron 3mg17%

* These are only estimates and can vary dependant on brands of ingredients and serving sizes.

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