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Chocolate, orange & cranberry sourdough

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Bakingfanatic

Chocolate, orange & cranberry sourdough

A tangy, rich and very indulgent sourdough loaf.

Made with orange zest and cocoa throughout the dough, with pieces of dark chocolate and orange-soaked cranberries folded in.

https://bakingfanatic.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/chocolate-cranberry-orange-sourdough/

 

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Mini Oven

Indulge me!

I almost got this far!  Wait until I try it with cranberries. (Do have dried Elderberries... This has been a concentrated harvest this year here in Austria.  A very flavourful year!   

I've been pepping up my fridge starters (Rye and Einkorn) and since I'm discarding (heavy on the sour, low on yeast) decided to make myself a thick breakfast crepe.  (Ended up with two, Dolly got the first one, plain.)

Took equal parts from both starters (about half a large coffee cup full) added an egg and hefty soup spoon or two of "Spar Vital KeimKraft-Weizenmehl" sprouted  flour mix,  orange zest, added a super big pinch baking soda to cut the sour and raise the pancake and add a little salt.  ... sometime I splashed a bit of sweet cream into the batter.  :)

Fried in unsalted butter, rolled up and topped with elderberry-apple vinegar jelly (about the closest I can get to cranberries sweet/sour at the moment.)  Part of a broken chocolate (75%) bar and the lightest dusting of powdered sugar.  Then indulged myself.  ...So I know where this is going...  :)

This loaf is next!   (but I'm adding in some Einkorn sourdough to see how that comes out...) 

Also, might just whip up some cream and fold in elderberry-apple jelly (or cranberry jam) something special to spread on the bread.  

Mini

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Bakingfanatic

Wow I bet it will taste amazing with the Einkorn starter

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drogon

... to feel a lot like Christmas...

Still got Halloween and gingerbread yet though...

-Gordon

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Bakingfanatic

ah gingerbread. Now you're talking :)

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dabrownman

fancy do bread.  Well done and hapy baking