Chocolate (Nutella-like) swirled bread
When making this bread we started with chopped chocolate,but shortly melting it in the microwave and then spreading it on the dough justmade it come out perfectly swirled. Tasting like Nutella and for all who likecan substitute part of the flour for whole wheat flour to make it least a little bit kind of healthy.
Ingredients: 1 Sachet of Yeast 250 g = 1 ¼ cup sugar 300 ml = 1 ¼ cup milk 3 eggs 120 g = ½ cup Butter 350 g = 3 cups flour Pinch of salt 200 g chocolate 2 Tbsp Crème Fraiche or Sour Crème
1. Heat up ¾ cup of milk (200ml) just until warm, add the yeast and a tablespoon of the sugar to make a pre-dough. Let stand for at least 10 minutes until bubbles form on the surface.
2. Mix the eggs and 2/3 cup ( = 90 g) sugar.
3. Add the pre-dough and mix.
4. First add one cup of the flour and mix well,
5. Then quickly melt half of the butter in the microwave and add together with the remaining flour and a pinch of salt.
6. Knead until a nice dough forms, at least for 15 Minutes. It might be little bit tougher if you use whole wheat flour. Let stand covered a warm place for 45-60 minutes.
7. Mix the remaining milk with the cream and the remaining sugar (if you prefer dark chocolate, leave out the sugar)
8. Then add the chopped chocolate, this was dark chocolate, but you can use whatever you like. Even white chocolate would work if you then reduce the sugar.
9. When the dough had risen in size, roll it out to a big thin rectangular. Then melt the chocolate mixture in the microwave, in short intervals until smooth, don’t eat it but spread it on top.
10. Now roll the rectangular together from the longer size, so you end up with a long roll. You can form a ring or whatever shape you want. Since a ring would have been too big for our backing tray we did a curled up snake.
11. Let the dough go again for at least 40 Minutes. Then bake in a pre-heated oven at 175 C = for 60-80 Minutes until the outside is golden brown and it sounds hollow if knock on the bottom.