Chocolate Chip Tea Cake
Chocolate Chip Tea Cake
 Prep Time ~20 mins | Cooking Time ~ 50 mins |
 Approx Cost ~ £4.25 |  Difficulty ~ Easy |
 Freeze ~ Yes |  Serves ~ 6 - 8 |
Tip ~ If you do not like dark chocolate, substitute with milk chocolatechips, they are equally as good.
Ingredients
90g butter
110g unrefined golden caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
220ml sour cream
1 egg, lightly beaten
220g self raising flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
100g dark chocolate chips
Method
Preheat the oven to 190C, Gas Mark 5.
- Line a 450g loaf tin with baking parchment and set aside.
- Start to melt the butter in a saucepan. When it is half melted, remove from the heat and stir until fully melted. Stir in the sugar, vanilla extract, sour cream and egg.
- Sieve the flour and baking powder together, then add to the wet mix and stir until just blended.
- Fold in the chocolate chips, and then pour the batter into the lined loaf tin.
- Bake for 45 - 50 minutes until the cake springs back when lightly pressed in the centre.