This chocolate babka is soft and moist and the fudgy chocolate filling just melts in your mouth when you bite into a slice Its the perfect recipe for chocolate babka
Prep Time
1 hr 40 mins
Dificult
Medium
Servings
2 hrs 45 mins
Ingredients
Instructions
Prepare the dough: Warm milk and melt butter in a glass or ceramic bowl in the microwave for 30 seconds
or in a saucepan on the stovetop. Combine bread flour
all-purpose flour
yeast
and sugar. Add water
milk-butter mixture
egg
and salt to the dry ingredients and mix well.
Use the dough hook in a stand mixer on low speed or knead the dough by hand until the dough is smooth and elastic
about 15 minutes. If the dough is too wet
add more bread flour
about 2 tablespoons at a time (up to 8 tablespoons) to make a workable dough; too much flour can make the dough dry. Cover the dough with a damp cloth and let rise until double in size
about 1 to 1 ½ hours.
Make chocolate filling and streusel while the dough is rising.
For the filling: Stir together finely chopped chocolate
cinnamon
and sugar. Cut in chilled butter with a fork.
Make the streusel: Combine confectioners' sugar and all-purpose flour; cut in chilled butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
When the dough has doubled
punch the dough down and cut it into two equal pieces. Loosely shape each piece into a ball. Cover the dough with a damp cloth and let it rest for 10 minutes.
Roll out one portion of dough on a lightly floured surface to form a 15x4-inch rectangle. Sprinkle with 1/2 of the chocolate filling
roll up to form a long log
and seal the seam. Attach the ends to form a circle and place the ring
seam-side down
on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
Repeat with the second piece of dough.
Use a serrated knife or kitchen shears to cut slits at 1-inch intervals around the rings. Cover the rings with damp kitchen towels and let rise until doubled in size
about 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Make the egg wash: Combine egg and water in a small dish and whisk to combine.
Brush the loaves with egg wash. Sprinkle streusel on top. Bake the loaves
rotating the baking sheets to promote even browning
