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Dense & dark chocolate loaf

This cake is mixed and made in a saucepan – how easy is that? It’s best eaten on the same day.

• Serves 8 • Prep 20 mins • Cook 45-50 mins uniced

200g butter, plus extra for the tin
100g dark chocolate (use one that’s 70% cocoa solids), broken into chunks
150g natural yogurt
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 eggs
250g self-raising flour
175g dark muscovado sugar
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

FOR THE TOPPING

100ml double cream
1 tbsp butter
100g dark chocolate, chopped

Heat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Butter a large loaf tin (about 20cm long, measured from the top edge), then cut a strip of baking

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