Chocolate Chip Teabread

I thought I have lots of chocolate bars in the refrigerator. When I was about to prepare the ingredients to bake this teabread, realised that I didn't have enough of dark milk chocolate. So I modified slightly to the recipe with mixture of some white milk chocolate and replaced with chocolate rice to sprinkle onto the buttercream.

Recipe adapted from the cookbook *Just 5 Ingredients Cakes & Desserts Published by Hamlyn (see *note below).

Chocolate Chip Teabread 
Ingredients
125g slightly salted butter, softened
2 eggs
25g cocoa powder
150g milk chocolate, chopped into 5mm pieces {reserved about 25g to scatter on top of cake}
(I used 90g mixture of dark & white milk chocolate)
125g light muscovado sugar  (I reduced to 80g)
125g self-raising flour

Buttercream
50g unsalted butter, softened
75g icing sugar, sifted (I reduced to 50g)
1 teaspoon of cocoa powder, sifted
3 tablespoons of Chocolate rice

Method :
1) Grease a 500g or 750ml loaf tin and line with non-stick baking paper.

2) Preheat oven to 160ºC.

3) Sift the flour together with cocoa powder and set aside.

4) In a clean mixing bowl, whisk the butter and sugar with electric mixer till light and fluffy.  Add the eggs, 1 at a time beat till combined.

5) Add the sifted flour continue to whisk for about a minute until light and creamy. Mix in the chopped chocolate to the bowl.

6) Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and level the surface. Bake for about 50 minutes or until firm to the touch, a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.

7) Loosen the cake and transfer to a wire rack. Peel of the lining paper and leave to cool.

To make the Buttercream :
In a clean mixing bowl, beat together butter and icing sugar till pale and creamy with electric mixer. Add in cocoa powder and mix till incorporated.
Spread the buttercream over the top of the cake and sprinkle about 3 tablespoons of chocolate rice.

* note:
When I saw the published title "Just 5 Ingredients Cakes & Desserts" ... I literally thought that all the recipes use only 5 or less ingredients. But according to the author "this series requires you to remember a few storecupboard extras only (eg. Flour, sugar, baking powder, oil etc.) ... make sure you have at least some of them at home at all times so that you know you are just five ingredients away from a decent dessert."

Our weekend afternoon tea break with slices of decadent chocolatey teabread!
Enjoy & have a great weekend !

Happy baking ^-^ !

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This post is linked to the event Little Thumbs Up (August 2015 : Brown Sugar and Molasses) organised by Zoe of Bake for Happy Kids and Doreen of My Little Favourite DIY, and hosted by Jess from Bakericious.