Coffee Cake

This cake does not have too much of sweetness. If you want more sweet, then you can increase the amount of sugar.

Ingredients

1 1/3 cup Cake flour

½ cup sugar

½ cup butter at room temperature

2 eggs at room temperature

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

½ cup coarse cashew powder

½ cup cream or milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

½ teaspoon lemon zest

Method

Ø  Preheat the oven to 350 F. Butter and dust the flour to the loaf pan and keep aside.

Ø  In a medium bowl, combine cake flour and baking powder. Sift flour and baking powder together and keep aside.

Ø  In a large bowl, mix sugar and butter using hand mixer or stand mixer until nice and creamy texture. Add eggs, one at a time and beat well till gets nice and fluffy. Add vanilla extract and beat for few seconds.

Ø  Slowly add the flour mixture. Just add half of the mixture and mix them. Then add ¼ cup milk. Once the milk cooperated with the mixture, add the remaining flour, mix and then add the remaining milk. Mix well.

Ø  Remove it from the mixer, add lemon zest and nuts. Just fold them gently with spatula. Finally, add chocolate chips and fold it.

Ø  Pour into the prepared loaf pan; bake for 35 to 40 minutes. Cool the cake and slice them.