This chocolate chip cake with ricotta is very easy to bake and a delight for any occasion. The ricotta makes this loaf cake very moist and fluffy, and the chocolate chips delight young and old.
Preheat the oven to 325 °F // 160 °C. Grease the loaf pan with butter and line it with parchment paper.
Sift 1 ¾ cups Cake Flour with 1 Tsp Baking Powder and ½ Tsp Salt into a mixing bowl and set aside.
1 ¾ cups Cake Flour, 1 Tsp Baking Powder, ½ Tsp Salt
Now sift 1 ¾ cups Powdered Sugar in a separate bowl.
1 ¾ cups Powdered Sugar
Then add ¼ cup Unsalted Butter and 1 cup Ricotta Cheese and mix the whole mixture on medium speed until it is nice and creamy.
1 cup Ricotta Cheese, ¼ cup Unsalted Butter
Once the mixture is creamy, add 1 Egg and mix well before adding the second 1 Egg.
1 Egg, 1 Egg
Add 1 Tsp Ground Vanilla Bean Powder.
1 Tsp Ground Vanilla Bean Powder
Fold in all the dry ingredients you have already sifted before add 2 ¼ cups Milk or Dark Chocolate Chips. Let the kitchen machine blend it all well together.
2 ¼ cups Milk or Dark Chocolate Chips
Spread the cake batter evenly into the loaf pan.
Bake the cake for 80 to 90 minutes (depending on the oven) on the middle shelf in the preheated oven.
After baking the chocolate chip loaf cake
Lift the loaf out of the pan together with the baking paper.
Fold the baking paper aside and let the ricotta cake cool on a cake rack.
After cooling, remove the parchment paper, store this delicious cake in an airtight container.
Serve the loaf as finger-thick slices.
Notes
VariationsVariations of this loaf cake can be accomplished with different types of chocolate, with glazed fruit (to make it a fruit cake), or with additional spices. I use dried and grounded vanilla in this recipe. This "Vanilla Powder" I always have at home because I sweeten my morning porridge, rice pudding, or golden millet porridge with it. But what fits especially great to this loaf cake are Christmas spices or spice blends.