I shamelessly stole this recipe from my best friend anya's blog (she rocks socks btw). I felt I might owe the guys/girls at work a special treat for my mood swings. This recipe was great! I don't think it's so much a bread as it is a cake, but either way it's super yummy. The only change I made was that I made it into mini-loaves instead of one large loaf.
Chocolate Cinnamon Bread With Sugar Crust
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 large eggs
1 cup all purpose flour
2/3 cup cocoa
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 tablespoon water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cocoa powder
pinch of ground cloves
1. Preheat the oven to 350F and thoroughly grease a 9x5 loaf pan.
2. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time, waiting until the previous egg has been completely incorporated before adding the next.
3. In a medium bowl, sift together all purpose flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
4. In a measuring cup, whisk together buttermilk, water and vanilla extract.
5. Working in two or three additions, alternately add the flour mixture and the buttermilk mixture to the sugar mixture. Begin and end with an addition of the flour mix.
6. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
7. In a small bowl, whisk together topping ingredients: sugar, cinnamon, cocoa powder and ground cloves. Sprinkle evenly on top of the loaf cake. (Next time I will probably half the amount of the topping. A lot of it ended up coming off when the bread was turned out of the pan and it was excellent with the amount that did remain)
8. Bake at 350F for about 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
9. Allow cake to cool in pan for 10-15 minutes, then run a knife around the edge and turn out onto a wire cooling rack.
10. Cool completely before slicing.
Makes 1 loaf (or 8 mini-loaves).
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