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Fresh Basil, Olive Oil and Dark Chocolate Loaf

Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time55 minutes
Total Time1 hour 5 minutes
Servings: 1 medium loaf
Author: Gina @ The Passionate Pantry

Ingredients

INGREDIENTS

  • 300 g white spelt flour or plain flour
  • 120 g golden caster sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 2 tsp sea salt flakes or 1 tsp fine sea salt
  • 10 g fresh basil leaves no steam

  • 3 x 60g eggs
  • 240 g light olive oil
  • 100 g full fat milk
  • 80 g plain full fat yoghurt

  • 100 g dark chocolate callets or chopped into small chunks

TOPPING

  • 40 g dark chocolate callets or chopped into small chunks
  • 1-1/2 tbls Demerara sugar

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 180 degrees fan forced, and place rack into middle of the oven
  • 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)
  • Place a small bowl onto the lid of the TM bowl and weigh in 40g of chocolate callets or chopped chocolate, put aside
  • Place flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and basil leaves into TM bowl and mix 10 seconds / speed 4, put aside
  • Add eggs, olive oil, milk and yoghurt to TM bowl and mix 10 seconds / speed 4
  • Add chocolate to TM bowl along with the dry mix and knead / 20 seconds, scrape around bowl and repeat knead / 5 seconds
  • Pour batter into lined tin
  • Sprinkle over the extra chocolate and use a knife to lightly swirl the chocolate into the top of the loaf
  • Sprinkle over the Demerara sugar
  • 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)
  • Allow to rest for 15 minutes in tin before removing to a cooling rack to cool