Spoil your family this Christmas with a slice of this chocolate bread, toasted and buttered, for breakfast or serve the sliced bread for dessert.
Yield: 1 loaf
Prep Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 3 hours, 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 cup milk, room temperature
- 1 tsp active dry yeast
- 3 Tbsp brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp soft butter
- 1 large egg
- 2 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/4 cup shredded coconut
- 1/4 cup currants
- 3 cups bread flour, about
Preparation:
- In large bowl, mix milk and yeast. Add brown sugar, salt, butter, egg, cocoa powder and chocolate chips, walnuts, coconut, and currants. Stir. Add 2 cups bread flour and mix well. Add in enough bread flour to make a dough that follows the spoon around the bowl. Turn dough out onto lightly floured surface and knead for 8 minutes, adding more bread flour as needed until the dough is firm and smooth to the touch. Place dough in medium greased bowl. Turn dough over in bowl so that the top is also lightly greased. Cover with clean cloth and let rise in warm, draft-free place for 1 hour.
- Punch down dough. Turn dough out onto lightly floured board and knead for 5 minutes or until the bubbles are out of the bread. Shape dough into loaf. Place loaf in 8x4-inch greased loaf pan. Cover and let rise in warm, draft-free place for 45 minutes or until doubled in size.
- Bake bread at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes or until the bread sounds hollow when the top is tapped. Remove bread from pan and let cool on rack.
