This chocolate sour cream quick bread recipe is a perfect sweet treat that comes together quickly and is perfectly chocolatey and moist.
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day and I’ve got nothing planned. Seriously nothing. No cards made or bought, no chocolates, no pseudo-romantical family dinner planned. On Facebook all my friends are posting things like “I just finished making 27 diamonds from coal straight from the barbecue.” Okay, not really, but kind of. Um, hello guys! I’m supposed to be the crafty one who makes diamonds from left over barbeque coals. I mean I have a blog, I should own February 14th! Ha! Whatever.
Valentine’s Day isn’t a big deal around here. I make and throw up some decorations and we eat some delicious treat. We’ve done cheese and chocolate fondue in the past, which is delicious, but that’s the kind of thing the baby toddler can’t really enjoy. I’ve made molten lava chocolate cakes, which is fun, and also this Chocolate Buttermilk Layer Cake. The Chocolate Buttermilk Layer Cake is delicious, but super rich. Plus, I’m feeling lazy AF lately.
So they (the kids and the Mr.) will want chocolate something. I was about to make some banana bread with some mushy bananas and it occurred to me to make a chocolate quick bread. Why not? Chocolate, sour cream, melty chocolate chips… It’s exactly what they like. Plus, it’s quick. One bowl, no stand mixer necessary and done in just over an hour.
So I start making this chocolate sour cream quick bread, and go to add in the cocoa powder. Fantastic, I have two tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder and I need half a cup. Let me remind you that I’m feeling lazy AF lately and another trip to the market is out of the question. Plus, sweet B is napping and there is no way I am waking that child up. So I look through the cabinet and come across a can of Starbuck Hot Cocoa mix that I bought over a year ago. The girls hated it because it wasn’t super sweet and was a richer chocolate taste than other kinds. I figured it couldn’t hurt, so I substituted it into the batter. Um, that was the most delicious batter I’ve tasted in quite a while. The flavor was slightly different than the normal chocolate sour cream quick bread batter, but oh so good. So you can do that if you need to. I won’t tell.
Chocolate Sour Cream Quick Bread
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F.
Grease a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together. Add in eggs and sour cream and mix well until smooth. Add dry ingredients. Stir in chocolate chips.
Bake for 50 -55 minutes, until toothpick entered into the center of the loaf comes out clean. Once baked, let cool for 15-20 minutes prior to removing from pan. (Or don't. Because it's delicious a little bit gooey!)
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 332Total Fat: 17gSaturated Fat: 10gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 63mgSodium: 145mgCarbohydrates: 43gFiber: 2gSugar: 25gProtein: 5g
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What i love about this recipe (besides it looking amazing), is that I usually have all of these ingredients on hand. Pinning!
Sounds delicious. And the Starbucks hot chocolate sounds like a great substitution. I would never wake a sleeping child to go to the store!
This looks sooo good! There is nothing I love more than chocolate desserts. Definitely pinning this for later! Maybe even later tonight.
Looks delicious! And I have all the ingredients on hand.
Jessica! This looks so delicious and easy. Thank you for sharing. I’m looking forward to trying it as soon as possible.
Your Chocolate Sour Cream Quick Bread sounds and looks delicious. Thank you for sharing at Snickerdoodle. I am featuring your recipe at the Snickerdoodle party this week.
Looks delicious! Checking an ingredient, though…is that 1/2 CUP of cocoa? TIA!
Yes! Thank you for catching that!
Only things don’t have are sour cream and butter, salted or unsalted? This is a Social security fixed income house hold so don’t buy things not normally used by two of us. Not normally sour cream or butter users. Grand Junction is expensive place to live in SS.
This quick bread looks so doggoned good it’s almost making me drool, wow. Can hardly wait to make this..Wed.is payday (after 5 weeks again) so will be getting all I need to make it.
This year our winter decided to finally arrive this last week along with cold temps and some snow finally. Have all these nice sweaters I got on sale at Herbergers over the holidays, been wanting to wear them.
Enjoy your quick bread and sure am glad you shared this recipe. Enjoy rest of weekend
It doesn’t matter if it’s salted or unsalted butter. I recently read an article in a cooking magazine saying that in most recipes you can’t tell the difference between salted or unsalted. I get that it can be hard to get the extra sweets on a fixed income.
Enjoy your new sweaters! It’s been cold here in Arizona, well at least it’s cold for us. We will be missing the cold air in a couple months when it’s over 100 degrees again. Have a great week!
Your Chocolate Sour Cream Quick Bread looks amazing! Hope you are having a great week and thanks so much for sharing your awesome post with us at Full Plate Thursday.
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Thank you for sharing your delicious chocolatey bread at Fiesta Friday!
I am most definitely making this! It sounds soooo good right now! Thank you for sharing on Party in Your PJ’s. I’ve pinned for later.
Thanks for sharing your recipe at the Inspiration Spotlight party. Your sweet bread looks so good. Chocolate yum! pinned & sharing.
Thank you for sharing on Friday Features #omhgff on Oh My Heartsie Girl, your post being featured this week and will be Tagged and shared on Instagram, watch for it.
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Have a great weekend!
Hi Jessa, I’ve featured your recipe on Party In Your PJ’s this week on my blog, Aging Like a Fine Wine. Thank you for linking up!
I love how this chocolate bread looks like, it is so moisten. Will tell my girfriend to make this one 🙂
Saw this on the Sunday best link-up. Looks so delicious. Pinned it for later! Thanks for sharing.
I’ve never made sour cream bread before, but this looks so chocolatey and good! Moist and scrumptious! Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday!
This looks so yummy! I just love quick breads and who doesn’t like chocolate?! Pinned.
Stopping back by today to let you know what this yummy bread was picked as one of my feature favorites today at Encouraging Hearts and Home. Thanks so much for linking up with us!
My daughter loves anything chocolate, I’ll have to make this for her and surprise her. Thanks so much for sharing.