A tiny chocolate loaf cake to experiment with a variation of the sour cream orange cake I enjoyed so much.
Quarter recipe fits perfectly in my mini loaf tins.
I skipped the egg (because: half an egg is a no) and added some yogurt and a pinch of baking soda instead. Reduced the flour for the equivalent amount of cocoa.
And I added some gratuitous chocolate chunks at the end, because why not. Thought later that I might have melted them in with the cocoa.
This took about 15 mins at 325.
Very tender crumb.
I just looked at the recipe @CaitlinM shared and the Cooks Illustrated recipe @mig had mentioned a few weeks ago for buttermilk and sour cream chocolate cakes, which have similar fat and flour proportions, with butter not oil. BUT both those use 5 eggs where my base lemon bundt uses only 2 for the full recipe, so I guess could have used a whole egg (but it might have overflowed, so maybe also a different pan). Will try that next time.
But I’m quite pleased to have another good eggless recipe for my mom – this is effectively a richer version of the Amazon / crazy cake, no ganache needed.
