There's a little bitty cookbook in the children's section at the library, Winnie the Pooh's Teatime Cookbook. And years ago I discovered a delicious chocolate tea bread in it. I thought I'd make it for Easter ahead of time, but the recipe wasn't in my box, and I could not find it online anywhere. So, here it is, in the interests of deliciousness:
Chocolate Tea Bread
2 sticks butter
1 1/4 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
1 c. cocoa
1 c. plain yogurt
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 3/4 c. flour
4 oz. chocolate chips
Cream butter, sugar and vanilla till light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing rapidly. Gently mix in cocoa, yogurt, b. powder, soda and salt, then mix in flour*. Lastly, stir in the chips. Put into greased and floured 9x5 loaf pan and bake about an hour at 350 F. Leave in pan to cool with a towel over it.
*and for the love of Mike, Pete, or whoever - put on your reading glasses so you know to put in one and three quarters cups of flour, not one and one quarter cups (which is what I did - well, it'll just be more fudgy, right?)! I'm writing out this recipe in large letters ASAP.
by the way - the illustrations are by Ernest H. Shepard.
oh what a lovely little book! put it on my 'save for later' list on amazon to remember it! :))) I hope to do some early - Easter baking next week! I have plans for lots of chocolate chip cookies! Now that I am teaching Sunday school... well I must not disappoint :)))))
ReplyDeleteOh, that does look fudgy... I did something to similar effect with a ginger cake I was making... got two recipes mixed up I think, and put in too much wet stuff. It came out very pudding-like, and not to my liking. But the flavor was nice. So I cut the pieces small and froze them individually for when I "need" a snack so much that I'm not picky :-)
ReplyDeleteThat was before baking, Gretchen! But you had a good idea there - waste not, want not!
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