Chocolate sourdough enhanced bread
This is the Balthazar's Bakery's chocolate bread. I first ate it in 2007 at $9 a loaf. When I got home I searched and found the recipe online. It is a fantastic bread...but I took it up a huge notch with my starter instead of theirs. Wow..what a shreddable fantastic crumb. I also added dried cherries to 3 of the loaves. An amazing bread. You will need a mixer to fully realize this dough. It needs 5 min and then 10 min and then about 2 min . It has the butter beaten in like a brioche but there are no eggs...lots of chocolate. Here are some pics...sorry I can't share the fragrance...or taste:)
starter 100% white with apple yeast water to feed: [1] before adding the butter...lovely gluten: [1] after the butter and salt added : [1] ready to rise: [1] risen: [1] topped with cream/egg yolk/turbinado sugar : [1] out of the oven: [1] shreddable crumb: [1] [1]