Shelly's Recipe

Cafe Creme Chocolate Nut Bread with Coffee Cream Glaze

Category: Quick Breads

If the flavors of chocolate and coffee are your special delight, you will love this bread. The flavor of coffee is intense and the chocolate chips add the perfect touch.

1 egg
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
3 teaspoons instant coffee
2/3 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Beat together first 7 ingredients until blended. Combine and add the next 4 ingredients and stir until dry ingredients are just moistened. Do not overmix.

Divide batter between 4 greased and lightly floured mini-loaf pans (6x3x2-inches), place pans on a cookie sheet, and bake in a 325 degrees oven for 45 to 50 minutes, or until a cake tester, inserted in center, comes out clean.

Allow to cool for 15 minutes and then remove from pans and continue cooling on a rack. When cool, brush tops with Coffee Cream Glaze. Yields 4 mini-loaves.

COFFEE CREAM GLAZE:

2 tablespoons cream
1 teaspoon instant coffee
1 cup sifted powdered sugar

Stir together all the ingredients until blended. (Please note that the instant coffee will not dissolve. This intensifies flavor.)