Adapted from Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day - Soft Sandwich Bread and Rolls
It was my birthday. There was no birthday cake. I took the day off from work to rest. I've been thinking what should I make myself. I decided to make a chocolate bread, I miss Gardenia Chocolate Bread, soft and full of chocolate. I looked around my recipe books, but couldn't find it. Well, I had to improvise. Reinhart's recipe usually turns out well. I decided to go for it. Melting the butter and chocolate, I decided to add the honey in as well. Mixing the rest together I kneaded the dough first. Then add in the chocolate mix - 80g of it. I had quite a bit of a difficulty in mixing them together. But finally it got together. The dough felt dry and I had to mix a little bit of water. After mixing it into a ball, I put into the fridge and went out. In the evening, I took it out. The dough didn't seem to have risen. I had to leave it out at about 3 hours before the dough finally relax and expanded. I should have left it rise for a little. The dough seems tight still. Anyway, I decided to go ahead and shape it into a loaf. Using the rest of the chocolate mix, spread it on the dough, and threw in the shredded chocolate, rolled it up and put it into the loaf pan. I let it rise, again, it took a long while to rise. It didn't quite rise to double, I left it to rise for 5 hours. In the middle of the night, I woke up to see that it has risen to 70% of the loaf pan, and I decided to bake it. Heating up the oven at 190 degrees celsius, I put the loaf in to bake about 50 minutes. The bread smelt really chocolaty. I like it, it was a little too dry, I shouldn't have added the flour. But, well, it was still the nice chocolate bread that I like, not as soft as Gardenia, but good enough for the day..... I said to myself, Happy Birthday! | Recipe: 397g Flour (added 50g flour thinking that of the additional liquid that I added from the chocolate, however, this made the dough too dry) 212 milk 4.5g instant yeast 7g salt 1 egg 39g honey 42g unsalted butter melted 100g chocolate some shredded chocolate. |
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