Just one more chocolate delight to celebrate a day of love. Delicate, sweet, melt-in-your-mouth crumb, and topped with the fruit of love: strawberries. Oh Happy Valentine’s Day!
A recipe by Junita Bognanni blogging at stackofcookbooks and tweeting @junita using everyone’s favorite Chocolate Hazelnut spread. For breakfast, for snacking, for dessert (serve warm so the ice cream melts all around it), any which way is perfect.
Serves 10 by making 1 large loaf – Reconstructed recipe by Apple Crumbles
- 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2/3 cup plain non fat Greek style yogurt
- 3/4 cup Chocolate Hazelnut spread (such as Nutella)
- 1 1/3 cup flour
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Prepare large loaf pan with non stick cooking spray.
In a standing mixer, beat the butter and sugar until light in color.
Add eggs one at a time while mixer is beating then add the yogurt and chocolate hazelnut spread beating until combined.
Mix the flour with the salt, baking powder and soda then stir into the chocolate batter until well combined.
Pour into prepared loaf pan and bake 50 – 60 minutes until a knife comes out clean.
Leaving you with this Japanese Proverb:
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
To be applied in every aspect of life.
Oh chocolate cake, how I love thee! I gaze upon you with greedy intent.
Choco-Nut Loaf, will you be my Valentine?
Happy Valentine’s Day Joanne!!!
Oh boy–I’m pretty good at resisting making things that are that tempting, but…may have to make an exception here!