Substances
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2½ teaspoons active dried yeast
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55 g (2 oz.¼ cup) caster (superfine) sugar
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375 g (13 oz.3 cups) remarkable flour
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30 g (1 oz.¼ cup) unsweetened cocoa powder
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¼ teaspoon sea salt
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50 g (1¾ oz) unsalted butter
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185 g (6½ oz.1¼ cups) chopped trusty-quality shadowy chocolate
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1 egg, lightly crushed
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½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
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mascarpone or ricotta cheese, sweetened to kind with ½–1 tablespoon icing (confectioners’) sugar, to serve
Potential
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Step 1
Pour 185 ml (6 fl oz.¾ cup) warmth water correct into a small bowl. Sprinkle with the yeast and a pinch of the sugar and slump away in a draught-free verbalize for 10 minutes, or unless foamy.
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Step 2
Mix the remaining sugar in a bowl with the flour, cocoa powder and salt.
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Step 3
Put the butter and half of the chocolate in a heatproof bowl and verbalize over a saucepan of simmering water, making sure the inappropriate of the bowl doesn’t touch the water. Trot customarily, unless the chocolate has melted.
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Step 4
Do away with from the warmth and scoot within the egg and vanilla unless well blended, then pour into the flour combination. Add the yeast combination and mix collectively the usage of a wooden spoon, then prove onto a lightly floured work ground and kneadfor 10 minutes, or unless the dough is silent and elastic.
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Step 5
Build the dough in a sizable oiled bowl, turning to coat within the oil. Quilt with plastic wrap and slump away to rise in a draught-free verbalize for 1½–2 hours, or unless doubled in size.
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Step 6
Knock back the dough by punching it gently, then prove onto a lightly floured work ground. Utilizing your fingers, press out to 1 cm (½ gallop) thick, then scatter with the remaining chocolate. Roll the dough correct into a log.
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Step 7
Switch to a greased baking tray, duvet with a moist tea towel (dish towel) and slump away to rise for 1 hour, or unless doubled in size. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F/Gasoline 4).
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Step 8
Bake the bread for forty five–50 minutes, or unless it is a ways mild brown and sounds gap when tapped on the inappropriate. Flip out onto a wire rack to frosty.
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Step 9
Abet at room temperature with sweetened mascarpone or ricotta.
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Step 10
Chocolate bread will retain for five days, kept in a groovy verbalize in an airtight container, or can be frozen in an airtight container for up to 6 weeks. After the first day, recent chocolate bread is better served lightly toasted.
