Chocolate Babka
Hi Folks,
While researching my latest craze of Artisan bread, I spotted a pic to the side of the webpage I was looking at , and it had an unusually beautiful shaped loaf of bread which turned out to be a Chocolate Babka. I was intrigued and researched more recipes and was overwhelmed as usuall at all the different yet similar ways to make this bread. Well I had had enough one afternoon and said to myself I had all the ingredients why not just try. Well I am sure most you have already found out that sometimes folks post recipes incorrect on purpose. I don't know why folks do this why throw folks under the bus. Why bother post it. Well the recipe I decided to follow had 1/4 + 1 tsp sugar which I figured out that should be 1/4 cup of sugar and they had 11.2 cups of flour which I figured out was 1 1/2 but that was not enough flour and by looking at a recipe for 2 loaves decided it should have been 2 1/2 cups but then being careful with the flour using only as needed towards the end. The recipe had 5 tblsp butter 1/3 cup milk 1 pkg yeast 1 egg + 1 yolk, 1/4 salt. So you tell me what you think the flour should be. I made my own version of filling which was pretty darn good of cocoa, semi sweet chocolate chips, brown sugar, white sugar, cinnamon and butter. I did only 2 1 hour rises. Overall it came out good but it was a learning experience. Any thoughts suggestions to those who have made or are expert Babka makers?