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Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread. When chunks of chocolate are added to delicious sourdough bread, something truly magical happens. On top of smelling amazing, this bread is almost like a giant chocolate croissant, and is perfect for a special breakfast, brunch, or snack (especially lightly toasted and smeared with butter or Nutella and served warm). Great recipe for Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread.

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Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread I love using dark molasses to make it extra dark and to give it more complexity. Eat with good butter for a divine. Rich with tart dried cherries and dark chocolate chips, and gently bitter from the coffee and cocoa.

You can make Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread use 13 ingredients and 12 the steps. Here guides how you make it.

The main ingredient Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread as follows:

  1. You need of **Sourdough Pre-dough**.
  2. Provide 45 g of bread flour or all purpose flour.
  3. You need 30 g of sourdough starter (wet kind).
  4. Provide 15 g of water (1 Tbsp), might need 1 more Tbsp.
  5. You need of **Main Dough**.
  6. Prepare 425 g of bread flour.
  7. Prepare 265 g of water (265 ml).
  8. Prepare 10 g of salt.
  9. You need 1/2 g of active dry yeast (1 heaping 1/8 tsp).
  10. Prepare 30 g of unsweetened cocoa powder.
  11. You need 75 g of dark molasses (or honey).
  12. Prepare of **Mix-ins**.
  13. You need 100 g of semi-sweet chocolate, cut into chunks.

After an hour, fold the dough over itself (as demonstrated in this video) about a dozen times -- this helps give oxygen to the yeasts in the dough, it develops the flavors and builds a well-structured crumb.; Apply a piece of plastic wrap directly on top of the dough, and a shower cap around the rim of the bowl. This Chocolate Chocolate Chip Sourdough Banana Bread is studded with chocolate chips and with cocoa powder and is a great way to use sourdough starter. My first sourdough starter I ever had I started the summer before I went to college. I dragged it off to NAU for undergrad school.

Instructions Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread

  1. Mix the sourdough pre-dough together in a small bowl. Cover and let rest for 12 hours at room temperature..
  2. After 12 hours, mix the pre-dough with the main dough ingredients in a large bowl until the dough comes together..
  3. Remove to a floured working surface and knead for 15 minutes until smooth and elastic..
  4. Fold in the chocolate in batches..
  5. When all chocolate is folded in, knead for 1 more minute..
  6. Return dough to bowl, cover and let rise 2 hours at room temperature..
  7. After 2 hours, divide the dough into two equal portions. Shape into a round boules or longer oval loaf, or one each..
  8. Dust with a little flour and cover with a clean cloth. Let rise another 3 hours..
  9. Preheat oven to 230C/445F. While preheating, place a shallow tray at the bottom of the oven for creating steam. We'll be pouring in boiling water in right before baking to get the steam..
  10. When ready to bake, prepare some boiling water to pour in the tray at the bottom of the oven..
  11. Cut a slit down the center of each bread dough right before putting in oven to bake..
  12. Pour in some boiling water into the tray, then immediately put in the bread. Bake at 230°C/445°F for 10 minutes then remove the steam tray. Lower heat to 190°C/375°F and bak for another 25 minutes. (Total 35 minutes). Remove and let cool on a rack..

I'm sure my dorm mate thought I was insane taking up valuable space in the mini fridge for it. The conclusion of this chocolate sourdough bread recipe. This is a very different beast of a sourdough bread but it absolutely delicious and doesn't seem like anything else I've tried before. Like a regular sourdough bread, the crust is super crunchy and the crumb is soft and somewhat stretchy. "Our tasters were surprised by how fresh the bread tastes and by the lovely melted chocolate bits inside." Roseanne Pereira, NPR. ORG "One of my favorite indulgences is Zingerman's Chocolate Sourdough Bread.