Chocolate Pistachio Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted
3/4 cup milk
1 egg
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped pistachio nut
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/3 cup baking cocoa
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
decorating sugar (for topping) (optional)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease bottom and sides of a 9x5x3 loaf pan with shortening.
Mix sugar, butter, milk and egg in a large bowl until well blended.
Stir in remaining ingredients, except decorating sugar.
Pour batter into loaf pan.
Sprinkle with decorating sugar, if desired.
Bake 50 to 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean.
Cool 10 minutes in pan.
Loosen sides of loaf from pan and remove loaf to a wire rack to cool.
Cool 2 hours before slicing.