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Chocolate, almond babka!!!

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Skibum

Chocolate, almond babka!!!

Wow is it ever grat to have a strong active sweet levain again! I have been feeding daily to help develop character and depth and also baking daily. I built a 1:1:1 levain with bread flour and 95F water as per Forkish and it doubled in three hours. for this bake, I used my sweet levain pulla dough and the chololate filling from ITJB and slivered almonds. YUMMM!!!

I gifted some of this and this morning's boule to my neighbours as a Mother's day treat. I have some happy neighbours!

Happy baking folks! Brian

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dabrownman

Babka!  Lucy loves chocolate babka but i at it all before she can get any:-)  Well done ski and happy baking 

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dmsnyder

David

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Eli

beautiful babka bake! Say that thre times fast! Lol .. Very nice'

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Russian_Baker

Yes, Very nice ... Фантастика ! аромат , наверно - необыкновенный , а уж вкус ... ммм

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pmccool

And well they should be with such a delightful babka.  Nice bake, ski. 

Paul

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Skibum

Thanks to dab, David, Eli, Russian Baker and Paul!!! Now that ski season is done, I find myself with a healthy levain and now  YW starter. After a winter of little baking, I am again loving the process and results!!! Happy baking friends! Ski

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dabrownman

Ski.  Time to get those Moose Ribs in the smoker!  I was watching Buying Alaska on the tube  and this guy was freaking out over the huge smoke shed that came with the property and said he couldn't wait to smoke a whole moose in it.

Happy smoking