Chocolate Chip Ricotta Cake
This Chocolate Chip Ricotta Cake is moist, delicious and so easy to make! The addition of ricotta in this cake makes it extra fluffy and light.
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 cup butter softened
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup ricotta cheese strained if needed. See notes.*
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- icing sugar (aka confectioner's sugar or powdered sugar), for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and line a loaf pan with parchment paper or grease generously with butter.
- Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, add the butter, sugar, and ricotta and cream together. Slowly add the eggs and vanilla, mixing to incorporate everything.
- Slowly add the flour mix on low speed until it is all incorporated. Remove the bowl from the stand mixer. Using a spatula, stir in the chocolate chips.
- Pour the batter into the loaf pan and bake for approximately 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Transfer onto a cooling rack and let cool completely.
- Once cooled, dust it with icing sugar.
Notes
*Depending on the brand of ricotta cheese you get, it may or may not need to be strained. If it is a bit thin and watery, scoop it into a cheese cloth and tie the cloth to wooden spoon. Then suspend the spoon over a large bowl to allow the excess moisture to drip away. Less "wet" ricotta's can be used straight out of the container.
Note: Metric ingredient measurements are provided as a courtesy using a third-party calculator and are rounded to the nearest unit. The recipes provided on this site have not been tested with metric measurements and their accuracy cannot be verified.
Nutrition
Calories: 361kcalCarbohydrates: 41gProtein: 6gFat: 20gSaturated Fat: 12gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 92mgSodium: 261mgPotassium: 63mgFiber: 1gSugar: 25gVitamin A: 513IUCalcium: 95mgIron: 1mg
The nutritional information provided is based on third-party calculations and is an estimate only. Accurate nutritional facts will vary based on the particular brands used, portion sizes, measurement accuracy and more.
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