Two types of chocolate give this elegant loaf cake deep flavor for a Valentine's Day treat Chocolate is a must-have for Valentine’s Day, but it needn’t be fussy.
Instead of melting bars for chocolate-covered strawberries or spending money on store-bought bon bons, give your valentine an intensely rich double chocolate loaf cake with a plush, velvety crumb.
Any type of bittersweet chocolate will work, but for best results use one that’s tasty enough to eat out of hand and contains about 70% cocoa solids.
Put the chocolate and the butter in a large heatproof bowl and set the bowl on top of the saucepan; be sure the bottom does not touch the water.
In this recipe from our cookbook, “ Milk Street Bakes,” we achieve a complex chocolatiness using a generous amount of bittersweet chocolate and unsweetened cocoa powder.
