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Brown bread with dark chocolate filling on a white table with a slice on a plate and a green plant in the background

Delicious and Easy Chocolate Babka Recipe

This chocolate babka is the perfect, comfort treat made with rich brioche dough and filled with a silky smooth, chocolatey filling.
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Course Baking
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

For the dough

  • 250 gm flour
  • 65 ml milk
  • 9 gm yeast
  • 50 gm sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 40 gm butter
  • pinch of salt

For the chocolate

  • 200 gm dark chocolate (60% or more)
  • 25 gm butter (cutinto cubes at room temperature)
  • 1 tbsp powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 15 gm cocoa powder (unsweetened)
  • 1 tbsp heavycream

For the Glaze

  • 1 egg
  • 20 ml cream

Instructions
 

For the Glaze

  • Add yeast and sugar to the milk (lukewarm). Give it a stirand let it sit aside for a few minutes.
  • Add flour and salt to a stand mixer fitted with a doughhook.
  • Add butter, adding a few cubes at a time, mixing onlow-medium speed, until incorporated.
  • Continue mixing for about 5 minutes on medium speed, until the dough is completely smooth, elastic and shiny.
  • Dust some flour onto a surface and form the dough into anice smooth ball.
  • Coverand let rise for about 30 minutes.

Make the Chocolate Filling

  • Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pot of simmering water.
  • Add in the butter, vanilla, cocoa powder, heavy cream and mix well. The mixture should be nice and thick. Let this mixture cool down.

Rolling and shaping the dough

  • Roll out the dough evenly into a rectangular shape and spread the chocolate mixture evenly onto it.
  • Use both hands to roll up the rectangle dough like a roulade, starting from the side closest to you and ending at the other long end. Press to seal the dampened end onto the roulade, then use both hands to even out the roll into a perfect thick log. Rest the rolled dough on its seam.
  • Cut the roll into half using a sharp serrated bread knife, lengthwise. The layers of dough and filling should be visible along the length of both halves. Then weave two parts together making sure the side with the chocolate mixture always faces the top.
  • Transfer the braided dough to the prepared pan and let it rise for an hour or until it has doubled in size.

Make your glaze and bake

  • Whisk an egg with heavy cream well and brush the dough with this mixture right before baking.
  • Preheat oven to 160 deg celsius. Grease your baking pan. This could be a loaf pan, a round cake tin, anything that you have handy. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until done and golden brown on top.

Make the syrup

  • In a small saucepan, combine the water, sugar, and salt. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and set aside.
  • Once the Chocolate Babka is ready, immediately brush or drizzle the syrup over top. The syrup helps to add a nice sheen to the loaf while also keeping the babka moist.
  • Once it has cooled down, take it out of the pan and slice it. Enjoy!
Keyword bricohe, chocolate babka