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Submitted by dhedrick on January 30, 2006 - 11:40am Chocolate Chip Coffee BreadI was just playing with some ingredients on Sunday afternoon, and this is what I came out with - it wasn't perfect, but is probably my favorite breakfast/dessert bread that I've made to date. Ingredients: 1.5 cups water (80-85 degrees) Combine the water & the yeast in a small bowl. Combine the coffee, milk, brown sugar, granulated sugar, salt, & all purpose flour in a large bowl. Once combined, add 1.5 cups of bread flour along with the water/yeast mixture, and combine completely. Slowly add more flour to dough until it moist and tacky, but pulls into a ball (I begin by adding the flour 1/2 cup at a time, and then taper the addition when it's getting close to the correct consistency) Dump dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 10-12 minutes. Return to a clean, lightly oiled bowl, cover with plastic wrap and a towel, and allow to rise at room temperature for 90 minutes. Punch down dough and divide into 2 equal pieces. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Form dough into desired shape and allow to rise for 60 minutes. Put dough into oven and cook for 30-40 minutes until the top is a dark brown. Allow to cool on rack for 45 minutes before cutting. I have made this dough into rounds with great success - it should work in a pan too, but I have not tried it this way. Do not place dough directly on a baking stone - use parchment paper to cover or the chocolate chips will melt all over your stone If you try this bread and have any comments, please e-mail me - I would love to know how it turned out for you!
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Yum. That sounds really
Yum. That sounds really good.
Chocolate Chip Coffee Bread--yum!!!
Hello dhedrick,
I had a few bars of chocolate in my fridge yesterday, so I decided to give your recipe a try. I really liked it!!! For me, it is the perfect bread to have with an afternoon cup of tea. Delicate texture and somewhat decadent without being overly sweet :)
My husband agrees wholeheartedly...he took almost half a loaf to work with him today!
Some photos:
You asked for comments, so here goes:
*I am lazy about doing dishes and waiting for hot liquids to cool to appropriate temperatures, so I put the freshly brewed coffee together with cold milk and water. This instantly resulted in liquid that was the right temperature for yeast, so I added the yeast and let it dissolve. Then I added all the rest of the ingredients except the chocolate chips (I used broken bits of chocolate bars instead) and the 5 cups of flour. The rest of your instructions I followed exactly.
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*Maybe I missed it, but I couldn't figure out from your description when to add the chocolate. I added it when I still had about 2 minutes left to knead the dough and the dough was a bit warm so I think lots of smaller chunks melted? I have never made a yeasted bread with added chocolate chips, raisins, nuts etc. before, so maybe there is an obvious answer to this question...
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*I think I added close to 5 cups of flour in the final mixing process.
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*I made one round loaf and one in a pan...they both turned out very nicely (except I burned the top of the "panned" loaf a little bit and the second rise of the round loaf was a little too long...it had to wait its turn while I cooked the other loaf first in my little oven!)
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*I haven't cut into the second loaf yet, but I am highly suspicious that most of the chocolate chunks ended up in that one...I didn't do a very good job at distributing them evenly throughout the dough.
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Thanks for the recipe...I will be making this loaf again!!! I bet it will make unbelievable bread pudding in a few days if it lasts that long :)