Chocolate Sourdough

Prompted by ehanners post and great looking loafs I baked Shiao Ping's Chocolate Sourdough earlier this week.  I followed the formula pretty close and was pleased with the results.  I went with 2 small and one larger boule.  Shiao Ping advises to bake them right from the fridge.  I did get better oven spring with the boule that I let warm for about an hour so I wondered if I should have done this with the others, or if I just should have let them rise a bit longer before I put them in the fridge to retard.  Anyhow, if you are looking for a great sweet bread for a holiday breakfast or other celebration you may want to consider this as an option!  A couple pics of the oven spring from the loaf I let warm and the crumb follow:

From bread

From bread