Chocolate Bread

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Here's what makes this breadstuff great: It is not excessively sweet, and it has cocoa pieces of assorted size baked into the dough. It's large arsenic toast, slathered with effect jam, and for making breadstuff pudding. And it freezes well; spot directions below.

Silver Spring baker Tish Hall likes to measurement her ingredients by weight. She uses earthy cocoa powder, not Dutch-process, and prefers cocoa from Penzeys, which she says has a batch of cocoa food successful it. For the chocolate, she likes Callebaut brand, which she buys successful 1-pound bricks and cuts by manus (it is disposable astatine Sur La Table, astatine barroom and candy stores and astatine immoderate Whole Foods Market locations). Smaller flakes get kneaded into the dough, but larger chunks stay intact.

If you don't ain a room scale, spot NOTES below.

This breadstuff tin beryllium frozen earlier oregon aft it is baked. See directions below.

From Silver Spring location baker Tish Hall.

Ingredients

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Servings: 4 small loaves

  • 35 ounces breadstuff flour, positive much for the enactment aboveground and arsenic needed
  • 5 ounces airy brownish sugar
  • 4 ounces earthy unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 8 ounces bittersweet oregon semisweet chocolate, unevenly chopped (some big, immoderate tiny pieces)
  • .45 ounce salt
  • 1 packet progressive adust yeast (scant .6 ounce)
  • 26 ounces water, betwixt 90 and 110 degrees

Nutritional Facts

Per portion (based connected 10 per loaf)

  • Calories

    140

  • Fat

    3 g

  • Saturated Fat

    2 g

  • Carbohydrates

    26 g

  • Sodium

    125 mg

  • Protein

    4 g

  • Fiber

    2 g

  • Sugar

    6 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Silver Spring location baker Tish Hall.

Tested by Randy Richter.

Published July 27, 2010

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Updated March 13, 2026

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