Recipe - Cocoa-Nut Bread With Chocolate Honey Butter

BREAD
1 cup Sugar
One half cup Butter
2 Eggs
1 cup Buttermilk
1 Three fourths cup Allpurpose flour
One half cup Unsweetened cocoa powder
One half teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Baking soda
1/3 cup Chopped nuts of choice

BUTTER
One half Butter
2 tablespoon Honey
2 tablespoon Chocolate syrup

From: waterman@vt.edu (Betsey)

Preheat the oven to 350. Begin by preparing the bread batter. In a large
mixing bowl, crem together the sugar and butter. When smooth, add the eggs
and mix well. Stir in the buttermilk. Add the flour, cocoa, baking powder,
salt, and baking soda. stir until the dry ingredients are just moistened.
Stir in the nuts.

Pour the batter into a greased 9x5inch loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour or until
a tester comes clean. Remove the bread from the pan and let cool.

Prepare the honey butter. Combine the butter, honey, and chocolate syrup in
a mixing bowl. Beat a high speed until the mixture is light and fluffy.
Serve with slices of cocoanut bread.

~ Manor House Inn, Cape May, NJ

Posted to recipeludigest by jeryder@juno.com on Mar 9, 1998