I have a gift for you!

It’s cake…

of the chocolate variety!!!

I’ve eaten it everyday for breakfast this week, and I think you should too. Preferably at my house, so I can dig in to another slice: I’m out!

It’s perfectly paired with your morning coffee, but a glass of ice cold milk really does the job right.

My heart composed songs, poems, and sonnets of love each time I bit into this tender, dark loaf; i’ll keep those savory words private for the time being…

But best believe: This deep, devilishly decadent chocolate cake is the epitome of pleasure and self satisfaction in a loaf pan.

Everyday Chocolate Cake for president? It has my vote.

Everyday Chocolate Cake – taken from SmittenKitchen.com

1/2 cup (1 stick or 4 ounces) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup (6 7/8 ounces) firmly packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup (4 ounces) granulated sugar
1 large egg, at room temperature
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups (6 3/4 ounces) all-purpose flour
3/4 cup (2 5/8 ounces) Dutch cocoa powder (see above for a natural cocoa adjustment)
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Preheat the oven to 325°F. Butter and lightly flour a 9×5×3-inch loaf pan, or spray it with a butter-flour spray. In a large bowl, on the medium speed of an electric mixer, cream the butter until smooth. Add the sugars and beat until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the egg and beat well, then the buttermilk and vanilla. Don’t worry if the batter looks a little uneven. Sift the flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt together right into your wet ingredients. Stir together with a spoon until well-blended but do not overmix. Scrape down the batter in the bowl, making sure the ingredients are well blended.

Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Bake for 60 to 70 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean. Cool in pan on a rack for about 10 to 15 minutes, at which point you can cool it the rest of the way out of the pan.