Delicious and easy to make chocolate sourdough bread

To amp up your sourdough baking and make a move from traditional sourdough bread recipes, why not try a Chocolate Sourdough Baked Bread? It's fun, delicious, and pretty easy to make. Drizzle your chocolate chip bread with any toppings and flavors you want. Follow the full recipe!

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• 160 g active sourdough starter
• 230 g warm water
• 330 g bread flour
• 30 g cocoa powder
• 20 g powdered sugar
• 6 g coarse kosher salt

1. Combine the initial 60 g of sourdough with 60 g of water and 60 g of bread flour. Mix until fully combined, then set aside. Once the engine has doubled in size, it is ready to use.
2. Mix 160g active starter with 230g warm water in a large bowl, stirring until combined.
3. In a medium bowl, whisk the bread flour, cocoa powdergranulated sugar and kosher salt.
4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until you have a stiff dough. Continue mixing using your hands or a spatula.
5. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and let it rest for 30 minutes.
6. After 30 minutes, perform a series of stretches and folds, then with wet hands, gently pull the dough until it's long enough to fold over itself. Rotate the container and repeat 4 times.
7. Set the bowl aside for 30 minutes. Then repeat the stretching and folding process again, followed by a 30-minute break.
8. After the final set of stretches and folds, let the dough rest for 1 hour.
9. Transfer the dough to a lightly floured work surface and shape the dough into a ball. Simply fold the edges of the dough into the center until it forms a nice ball.
10. Place the dough layer side down on a piece of parchment paper, then frost the parchment paper with the chocolate molded dough and place it in a bowl that is similar to the shape of your dutch oven.
11. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator to ferment overnight, or on the kitchen counter until doubled in size before baking.
12. If you chill your chocolate batter in the fridge overnight, then remove the bowl from the fridge and let it come to room temperature 4 hours before baking.
13. Once you're ready to bake, place yours Dutch oven in the oven and heat to 475 degrees.
14. Use a sharp knife to score the top of the loaf. Then carefully remove the dutch oven from the oven and use a piece of parchment paper to raise and lower your bread in the dutch oven.
15. Cook the chocolate sourdough bread in a covered Dutch oven at 475 degrees F for 30 minutes, then cook uncovered for another 10 minutes.
16. Remove the chocolate loaf from the Dutch oven once it's done cooking and place on a wire rack to cool.

• Author: Natasha Krajnc
• Cooking time: 40 min
• Category: bread

Baker's schedule

Day 1

• 08:00: Feed the initial room temperature or cold water, then put it in a cool place to activate.
• 4 in the afternoon: Combine the ingredients to make the dough for the chocolate sourdough bread
• 5:30 in the afternoon: The stretching and folding process is complete and your chocolate cake should be shaped and resting on a piece of parchment paper, placed in a bowl. Cover the container tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate.

Day 2

• 08:00: Remove the dough from the refrigerator and place it on the kitchen counter.
• 12 PM: Place Dutch oven in a cold oven and preheat to 450F.
• 12:30 p.m: Uncover the loaf and carefully grate the surface of your loaf with chocolate. Carefully remove the Dutch oven from the oven and use parchment paper to lower the bread into the Dutch oven.

Suggestions for service

There are many ways to enjoy this delicious chocolate sourdough sandwich bread. Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Toast and drizzle some maple syrup over each chocolate slice.
• Make Nutella, jelly or peanut butter sandwiches, with cream cheese filling dry fruit – yum!
• Mix two slices of chocolate bread together and spoon your favorite ice cream on one slice, add some chocolate chips or chopped nuts to the mix and you have a chocolate ice cream sandwich!

What does chocolate sourdough bread taste like?

This delightful Chocolate Sourdough Bread tastes just as you'd expect a chocolate cake to taste! Although the texture is more similar to a sandwich bread, unlike a bread or chocolate cake.

In the conditions of the taste and aroma of sourdoughthere isn't much sourness in the bread, but its unique textures and flavors are what make it so enjoyable.

How to store chocolate sourdough bread

To extend the life of your delicious, crumbly chocolate loaf, place it cut side down on a cutting board for up to 24 hours until the crust is browned. In addition, you can transfer the bread to a bread bag after 16-18 hours.

Additionally, if you're worried that you won't be able to finish your loaf in the allotted time, you can simply store your chocolate loaf in the refrigerator for up to 2 months. Wrap in plastic wrap, then put in a bread bag, seal and refrigerate.

Bread with chocolate dough

This decadent sweet bread complete with a fun sourdough mix is ​​a great recipe and a great way to put some leftover sourdough money to use, providing some use and successful sourdough baking!

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