How to cook Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread

This Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread { has been the favorite recipe on modest Recipes for over 11 years. Thousands out of people make every day. Why? This is the ultimate artisan bread. The crust is crunchy and the chewy center is filled with big pools of dark chocolate. For my birthday this year, my mother-in-law sent us the most delicious chocolate sourdough yeast bread from Zingerman's in Ann Arbor.

This Chocolate Chocolate Chip Sourdough Banana Bread is studded with chocolate chips and with cocoa powder and is a great way to use sourdough starter. My first sourdough starter I ever had I started the summer before I went to college. I dragged it off to NAU for undergrad school. You can have Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread

1. Prepare of **Sourdough Pre-dough**.
2. You need 45 g of bread flour or all purpose flour.
3. Prepare 30 g of sourdough starter (wet kind).
4. It's 15 g of water (1 Tbsp), might need 1 more Tbsp.
5. Prepare of **Main Dough**.
6. Prepare 425 g of bread flour.
7. You need 265 g of water (265 ml).
8. You need 10 g of salt.
9. It's 1/2 g of active dry yeast (1 heaping 1/8 tsp).
10. It's 30 g of unsweetened cocoa powder.
11. Prepare 75 g of dark molasses (or honey).
12. It's of **Mix-ins**.
13. You need 100 g of semi-sweet chocolate, cut into chunks.

When chunks of chocolate are added to delicious sourdough bread, something truly magical happens. On top of smelling amazing, this bread is almost like a giant chocolate croissant, and is perfect for a special breakfast, brunch, or snack (especially lightly toasted and smeared with butter or Nutella and served warm). Mix the sourdough pre-dough together in a small bowl. To a mixing bowl, add the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder and whisk to combine.

Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread instructions

1. Mix the sourdough pre-dough together in a small bowl. Cover and let rest for 12 hours at room temperature..
2. After 12 hours, mix the pre-dough with the main dough ingredients in a large bowl until the dough comes together..
3. Remove to a floured working surface and knead for 15 minutes until smooth and elastic..
4. Fold in the chocolate in batches..
5. When all chocolate is folded in, knead for 1 more minute..
6. Return dough to bowl, cover and let rise 2 hours at room temperature..
7. After 2 hours, divide the dough into two equal portions. Shape into a round boules or longer oval loaf, or one each..
8. Dust with a little flour and cover with a clean cloth. Let rise another 3 hours..
9. Preheat oven to 230C/445F. While preheating, place a shallow tray at the bottom of the oven for creating steam. We'll be pouring in boiling water in right before baking to get the steam..
10. When ready to bake, prepare some boiling water to pour in the tray at the bottom of the oven..
11. Cut a slit down the center of each bread dough right before putting in oven to bake..
12. Pour in some boiling water into the tray, then immediately put in the bread. Bake at 230°C/445°F for 10 minutes then remove the steam tray. Lower heat to 190°C/375°F and bak for another 25 minutes. (Total 35 minutes). Remove and let cool on a rack..

Use a cheese grater to grate the frozen butter into the flour mixture. Use a fork to cut the butter into the flour until it forms pea size crumbles. In a small bowl, whisk together the egg, sourdough discard, heavy cream and vanilla extract. In a separate bowl, cream together butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla extract. Rich with tart dried cherries and dark chocolate chips, and gently bitter from the coffee and cocoa.

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