Chocolate chip pound cake

Claire came over for tea this afternoon, and we decided to bake a cake. Not having anything particular in mind, we kept it pretty simple - it's a pound cake with chocolate chips, Nutella in the middle and ganache over the top, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Chocolate Chip Pound Cake
Ingredients

• 250g Butter
• 125g Caster sugar
• 125g Dark brown sugar
• 4 Eggs
• 1tsp Vanilla extract
• 250g Plain flour
• 1/2tsp Baking powder
• 150g Chocolate chips
• Nutella

For the ganache

• 130ml Double cream
• 200g Chocolate chips

Method

1. Cream the butter and sugar.
2. Beat in the eggs and vanilla.
3. Fold in the flour, baking powder and chocolate chips.
4. Pour into a greased baking tin and bake at 180C for ~1hr.
5. Turn out onto a rack to cool.
6. Scald the cream and pour over the chocolate chips to make the ganache. Stir until the chocolate is melted.
7. Cut the cake horizontally and spread Nutella in the middle.
8. Top with ganache.

My glamorous assistant :oP

 Claire's one of those weird people who like eating raw cake batter...

 Flipping it out of the cake tin.

 Oooooh, pretty. Not my doing, mind you - the swirls were all Claire.

 Yum!