Fresh Basil, Olive Oil and Dark Chocolate Loaf
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Serves: 1 medium loaf
 

Inside the loaf ... totally delicious!

Ingredients
INGREDIENTS
  • 300g white spelt flour, or plain flour
  • 120g golden caster sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 2 tsp sea salt flakes, or 1 tsp fine sea salt
  • 10g fresh basil leaves (no steam)
  • 3 x 60g eggs
  • 240g light olive oil
  • 100g full fat milk
  • 80g plain full fat yoghurt
  • 100g dark chocolate, callets or chopped into small chunks
TOPPING
  • 40g dark chocolate, callets or chopped into small chunks
  • 1-1/2 tbls Demerara sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees fan forced, and place rack into middle of the oven
  2. Grease and line a medium loaf tin ensuring that the baking paper extends beyond the ends to help remove the loaf from the tin – you don’t want to upturn the tin when the loaf is baked otherwise you will lose the Demerera sugar as the topping (I used a medium bread tin with a base measurement of 22cm x 9cm)
  3. Place a small bowl onto the lid of the TM bowl and weigh in 40g of chocolate callets or chopped chocolate, put aside
  4. Place flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and basil leaves into TM bowl and mix 10 seconds / speed 4, put aside
  5. Add eggs, olive oil, milk and yoghurt to TM bowl and mix 10 seconds / speed 4
  6. Add chocolate to TM bowl along with the dry mix and knead / 20 seconds, scrape around bowl and repeat knead / 5 seconds
  7. Pour batter into lined tin
  8. Sprinkle over the extra chocolate and use a knife to lightly swirl the chocolate into the top of the loaf
  9. Sprinkle over the Demerara sugar
  10. Bake for 55 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean and the top is a nice golden colour (there may be some melted chocolate on your skewer but you are looking for the actual batter to be cooked … it takes exactly 55 minutes in my oven)
  11. Allow to rest for 15 minutes in tin before removing to a cooling rack to cool
Recipe by The Passionate Pantry at https://www.thepassionatepantry.com.au/fresh-basil-olive-oil-dark-chocolate-loaf/