I made one plain 9x5 loaf for sandwiches this week (boy, is that gonna make a mean turkey sando!) With the rest, I took a chocolate babka recipe from Maggie Glezer's A Blessing of Bread that I picked up while visiting Lana during the spring. The photo of the beautiful undulating dough beribboned by swirls of chocolate completely seduced me, and I've been looking for an opportunity to bake it for months. I hadn't been planning on it but I had all the ingredients on hand and it seemed like a good fit for my excess dough, so I crossed my fingers and switched the challah with my brioche. A mix of cocoa, cinnamon, sugar and melted butter is slathered on brioche dough, then walnuts and chocolate chips sprinkled on top. The dough is rolled up into a long tube like so...
....et voila! Chocolate walnut brioche. I winged it with the proofing and bake time/temp, but 30 minutes at 375 worked well. The shaped dough took about 1.5 hours to proof properly even in a warm kitchen because it was weighed down with all that filling. Our apartment now smells like good things and happy thoughts, and I can't wait to start my Sunday morning with a warm slice of it and some strong coffee. Talk about having sweet dreams tonight!
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drool =P~~~~~~~~~
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