Nigella's Chocolate Loaf

Combine in food processor:
- 1 and 1/3 cup plain flour (200g)
- 1 and 1/3 cup sugar (275g)
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarb/baking soda
- 1/2 cup (good 50g) cocoa
- 6 oz soft unsalted butter 175g
- 1/3 cup (80ml) sour cream - makes sure you get tender crumb
- good splash vanilla
- 2 eggs

Mix in food processor
Add 1/2 cup water just off the boil and mix more
Give it a stir
Add 1 cup (175g) chocolate chips
Stir the chips into smooth batter
Put in loaf tin (2pound tin) line with foil and pour batter in
1 hour in 170 degree oven

Chocolate syrup
Fill pan with 1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cocoa
Whisk (don’t stir on the heat)
You want the syrup to bubble away until it is thickened

When cake is out puncture top of cake so syrup can come down.
Then drizzle with syrup.

Then top with shards of chocolate.