The Joy of Cooking Chocolate Chip Cake is from my friend Marisa, who says it's her family's favorite "easy" cake. She usually makes it with chocolate chips, but this week she made it with butterscotch chips in honor of a certain birthday girl who loves butterscotch.
No one around here is having a birthday any time soon (thank goodness!), but I wanted to try the cake too.
Texture and Flavor
It's good! It's more like a coffee cake or quick bread than a light and fluffy cake, but very tasty and easy to cut into small slices and serve with fruit. I used a mixture of chocolate chips and butterscotch chips, then drizzled it with a vanilla glaze.
Joy of Cooking Chocolate Chip Cake
According to the Joy of Cooking, the source of the original version and where Marisa turns for recipes, this cake is also good with an orange glaze. Maybe next time!
Recipe
Sour Cream Chocolate & Butterscotch Chip Cake
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour (200 grams)
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled (70 grams)
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar (130 grams)
- 1 teaspoon of vanillla
- 1 cup sour cream, full fat
- 1 large egg
- ¼ teaspoon plus a pinch of salt
- ⅓ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ⅓ cup butterscotch chips or just use more chocolate chips
Vanilla Icing
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- ½ cup confectioners' sugar
- 1-2 tablespoons milk
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a loaf pan.
- Mix the flour, baking powder and baking soda together in a bowl and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, stir together the cooled butter, sugar, vanilla, sour cream, egg and salt. Add the flour mixture to the sour cream mixture and stir until blended (batter will be thick), then stir in the chocolate chips.
- Transfer the batter to the loaf pan and bake for 45 minutes. Let cool for about 15 minutes in the pan, then carefully turn from pan and let cool on a wire rack.
- Make the icing. Melt the butter in a microwave-safe bowl or a 2 cup Pyrex measuring cup.
- Add the sugar and stir to coat it with butter - it will be thick and pasty. Slowly add the milk about ½ tablespoon at a time, mixing well and adding more until you get the consistency you like. Stir in the vanilla. Drizzle over the cooled cake.
Notes
Awkward Kitchenette says
Oooh! Love the butterscotch chip part, what a nice addition! Yum!
hopeinbrazil says
Can't wait to try it. I like it that it's a small cake that won't last long. =)
Carolyn says
Like this recipe, very much! Did you use full-fat sour cream or try it with a lower fat version?
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust says
This looks so good!
Katrina says
I find it annoying that I have a family who don't like butterscotch. sigh But sounds like a nice quick cake no matter what is put in it.