Chocolate Bread (Bread machine)

Name: Chocolate Bread (Bread machine)
Total time: 9900 s
Yield: 1 1/2 lb loaf
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 240 ml water; 1 medium egg (beaten); 1 tbsp milk powder; 1 tbsp oil (I used olive, but your choice); 115 gm sugar; 1/2 tsp salt; 310 gm strong white bread flour; 250 gm cocoa powder; 1 tsp fast action yeast; 1/4 cup chocolate chips; Honey

Panda.s @cook_3715208

London/ Essex Border. U.K.

Lockdown experiment, great with peanut butter or orange marmalade.

Panda.s @cook_3715208

London/ Essex Border. U.K.

Lockdown experiment, great with peanut butter or orange marmalade.

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Ingredients

2hr 45 min

1 1/2 lb loaf

240 mlwater
1medium egg (beaten)
1 tbspmilk powder
1 tbspoil (I used olive, but your choice)
115 gmsugar
1/2 tspsalt
310 gmstrong white bread flour
250 gmcocoa powder
1 tspfast action yeast
1/4 cupchocolate chips
Honey

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Steps

2hr 45 min

1

Place water, beaten egg and oil in bread pan, sprinkle over milk powder.
2

Place flour on top of liquid, sprinkle cocoa powder over top, make small dents in the corners.
3

Place sugar, salt and yeast in separate corners.
4

Set machine to sweet bread setting, add chocolate chips when machine bleeps.
5

When cooked remove carefully from pan and place crust side up on wire rack, whilst hot brush lightly with honey to glaze.
6

As you can see from picture, top of loaf broke away when removing from pan !
7

You can substitute chopped nuts,dried fruit or chopped crystalized ginger for the chocolate chips.
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Panda.s @cook_3715208

on July 11, 2020 11:12

London/ Essex Border. U.K.

When I left school I trained as a chef,worked in 5*London hotel for a few years.Drifted into transport planning,retired, do most of the cooking at home.Now have more time to play (experiment) in the kitchen, like to add my own twist to recipes ( my wife calls it 'tampering'!) bake bread and make / decorate novelty cakes for family and close friends.Two daughters and three grandchildren. Celebrated Ruby wedding anniversary with wife Pam 2014.