Chocolate Bread

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Ingredients

  • 935.0 gramFlour, all-purpose
  • 95.0 gramCocoa
  • 20.0 gramSalt, Flour
  • 3.0 gramYeast, Instant
  • 725.0 gramwater
  • 95.0 gramHoney
  • 0.5 cupWalnuts
  • 0.5 cupChocolate Chips

Instructions

1

Weigh out the dry ingredients (the first 4) into your dough bucket.

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2

Use a whisk to mix the dry ingredients till uniform

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3

Warm the honey so it pours easily. Weigh out the water into a pitcher. Slowly add the warm honey to the water while using a stick blender to mix. You don't want the honey to collect on the bottom and become hard to dissolve.

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4

Add the water and honey to the flour mixture.

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5

Using your hand, mix the dry and wet ingredients until the flour is fully integrated. Cover and let rest for 20 minutes.

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6

Flour your work surface and the top of the dough

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7

Turn dough out onto the work surface

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8

Dust top of dough with flour.

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9

Pat out dough

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10

If using the nuts and/or chocolate chunks, spread them out and press into the dough (amounts are totally up to you).

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11

Fold one third of dough onto the middle third.

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12

brush off the loose flour and fold the remaining third onto the two thirds.

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13

Turn dough 90 degrees and pat out again.

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14

Fold 1/3 onto the middle.

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15

Fold remaining third onto two thirds. Repeat steps 9 - 14 without adding more nuts or chocolate. Place into dough bucket, close cover, and let rest 20 minutes.

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16

Repeat steps 12-14 and let rest 20 minutes again.

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17

Repeat steps 12 - 14 and let rest 20 minutes again

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18

Repeat steps 12 - 14 and let rest 2.5 hours. Dough should have risen nicely.

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19

Turn dough out onto work surface and scale into two equal pieces.

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20

Shape into boule.

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21

Dust a banneton with flour (I use a 50/50 mix of all purpose and rice flour).

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22

Place boules into the baskets, spray lightly with oil, and let raise about an hour and a half.

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23

Turn dough out onto a peel and score as desired.

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24

Bake in a preheated 400F oven, with initial steam, for about 30 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 200F. Cool very well. Enjoy.

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Recipe Complete!

Enjoy your Chocolate Bread!

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