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Pamela Rice Hahn
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Chocolate,
Chocolate Chip Bread (Bread
Machine)
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An easy chocolate bread recipe, straight from your bread machine -- filled with luscious, rich dark chocolate chips. A treat the whole family will love! |
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Starter:
3/8 cup water or potato water
1/4 teaspoon yeast
1/4 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon flour
Place starter ingredients in a glass bowl. Mix well. Cover and allow to
proof for four to six hours.
Add the following ingredients to your bread machine in the order given (unless instructions for your machine call for otherwise):
1 egg
1/4 cup starter
1 cup skim milk
1/8 cup corn syrup
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
3 1/2 cups unbleached bread flour
3/8 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons active dry yeast
1 teaspoon sea salt
Optional: 1 tablespoon Ener-G dough enhancer
Use the white bread, light crust setting.
At the beep, add:
1/2 cup chocolate chips
Notes about this bread:
 The batter for this bread will not pull away from the machine at the beep like regular bread does. (In other words, it won't be in a ball.)
To avoid the crust split like you see in the picture, add small slits to the top crust a half hour before the bread completes the baking cycle.
Serve toasted for breakfast instead of (:::ugh:::) a cardboard-style toaster "pastry." (Because of the chocolate chips, you'll need to toast the bread in a toaster oven on the light setting or under the broiler. Be careful not to burn the bread!)
Top bread with seedless black raspberry jelly and whipped topping or ice cream for a tasty desert. For a fancier dessert, use a cookie or biscuit cutter to shape the center of the bread. Reserve the crusts (freezing them, if necessary) for later use in bread pudding.
Cut away crusts from thin slices of bread. Make
sandwiches with cream cheese icing filling (whip 2 tablespoons butter, 4 ounces of cream cheese,
and 1 teaspoon vanilla until creamy; stir in 1 to 2 cups sifted powdered
sugar, or until filling is desired consistency).
Article, recipe, and photos:
Copyright © 2001-2004 Pamela Rice Hahn
All Rights Reserved
For reprint permission or for other writing assignments, contact the
author.
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I'm of the opinion that no kitchen is complete without a bread machine. I use the
Zojirushi BBCC-V20 Home Bakery Traditional Breadmaker in mine. |
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It makes a 2-pound, horizontal loaf, so your bread looks homemade in addition to tasting that way, too.
(I'll admit, I prefer the texture of the homemade bread I make
using my Bosch mixer; however, for those
times you don't have the time to do things completely from scratch
-- or when you want the convenience of adding the ingredients and
setting the timer so your bread is ready when you want it later,
nothing beats the Zojirushi BBCC-V20 Home Bakery Traditional Breadmaker. |
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Available Now:
(No artificial sweeteners used in the
recipes -- anywhere, anytime!)
Index of SAMPLE RECIPES
Lazy About Grilling:
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Lazy About
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Betty Crocker's Best Bread Machine Cookbook: The Goodness of Homemade Bread the Easy Way
by Betty Crocker
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