Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chocolate almond babka. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Chocolate almond babka is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chocolate almond babka is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chocolate almond babka using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate almond babka:
- Get For dough: 2 1/4 cup plain flour
- Take 1 cup warm milk
- Take 1/4 cup butter
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp dry active yeast
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Get 2 tbsp sugar
- Make ready For filling
- Get 2 tbsp butter
- Make ready 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- Make ready 2 tbsp brown sugar
- Get 1/2 cup Nutella jam
- Make ready 1/4 cup almond finely chopped (1/8 almond powder + 1/8 finely chopped)
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Steps to make Chocolate almond babka:
- In the bowl add warm milk, melt butter, sugar and yeast. Allow it to sit for 5 to 10 minutes, or until it becomes frothy. - After 10 minutes yeast mixture should look frothy(if it does not, then throw and restart) Add plain flour and salt, mix well and make a dough.
- The dough should be soft but not too dry. If it seems dry or hard add little more warm milk.
- After 5 mins of kneading, transfer this dough to a big bowl, cover and keep aside for 45 mins to one hour and let it proof until it is doubled in size.
- Meanwhile prepare your fillings, combining all butter, brown sugar, cinnamon powder and almond in small bowls. - Roll Dough into a square near about 12 or 14 inches.
- Firstly spread on Nutella jam then spread almond mixture as even as possible, and roll into a log and cut lengthwise down the middle, twist one side of your log clockwise and the other side counterclockwise, and then twist them together. - Pinch the end to seal, and then carefully place it into greased loaf pan or tray.
- Baked preheated oven at 180 C for 40-50 minutes, or until they are nicely browned and a knife inserted into the center comes out without doughy-ness on it. - Allow them to cool for at least 30 minutes before serving.
It's Chocolate Krantz Cakes from Ottolenghi's Jerusalem. I can't find the exact recipe to a T online but this is darn close almost Ottoleghi's Babka. Babka is a sweet, buttery yeast bread. Usually, a babka has swirls of chocolate running throughout but another popular flavor is cinnamon. This chocolate babka is rich, decadent and can be made at home in only a few hours.
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