Chocolate Hazelnut Bread

Chocolate Hazelnut Bread a unproblematic yeasted loaf of fluffy sweetness bread, loaded alongside chunks of bittersweet chocolate together with toasted hazelnuts. Serve alongside a slathering of Nutella for a wonderful treat!

There’s something almost making a loaf of yeast breadstuff that is a totally satisfying kitchen experience, when it turns out great, of course.  This is i of those times.   The soft fluffy texture, the crisp sweetness crust, large bites of bittersweet chocolate together with toasted hazelnuts – aye … totally satisfying together with slow too!

The solely matter hard almost this breadstuff is trying to create upwards one's heed if you lot swallow it for breakfast or dessert.  Save yourself the problem together with don’t create upwards one's heed 😉

I bring baked this loaf inward a small-scale Dutch oven, pictured above, together with a foursquare drinking glass casserole dish.  Both loaves came out beautiful.

Don’t count on this beingness around the job solid for a long time, it disappears similar magic!  Good matter it’s thus slow to make.

Don’t cutting corners together with occupation chocolate chips.  The manus chopped bittersweet chocolate chunks melt into the fiber of the breadstuff giving you lot bursts of rich chocolate flavor.  The Nutella doesn’t wound either!

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Chocolate Hazelnut Bread

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

45 mins

Total Time

1 hr 10 mins

 

A unproblematic yeasted loaf of fluffy sweetness bread, loaded alongside chunks of bittersweet chocolate together with toasted hazelnuts. Serve alongside a slathering of Nutella for a wonderful treat!

Course:

Bread

Servings: 12

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

• 
  3 1/2
  cups
  unbleached all-purpose flour,
  divided
  


• 
  1/3
  cup
  light chocolate-brown sugar,
  packed tightly
  


• 
  1
  package active dry out yeast = (1/4 oz.) or about two 1/4 teaspoons
  


• 
  3/4
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  3/4
  cup
  evaporated milk
  


• 
  5
  tablespoons
  butter,
  cubed inward 1/2” pieces
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  water
  


• 
  2
  eggs,
  divided
  


• 
  6
  ounces
  bittersweet chocolate,
  chopped (about 1 heaping cup)
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  toasted hazelnuts,
  rough chopped
  


• 
  1
  tablespoon
  water
  


• 
  1
  tablespoon
  turbinado sugar,
  if desired
  


• 
  Nutella spread,
  optional for serving
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   In a large mixing bowl, combine two cups of the flour, the chocolate-brown sugar, yeast, together with salt.  Set aside.
   
   


2. 
   

   In a small-scale saucepan combine the evaporated milk, butter together with 1/4 loving cup of water.  Heat until the butter is almost melted together with the mixture reaches 105-110 degrees on an instant read thermometer.  Add the warm milk mixture to the flour mixture together with add together i of the eggs.  Beat alongside an electrical mixer on depression speed until combined, almost xxx seconds.  Beat on high speed for three minutes.  This volition move a rattling sticky, shaggy dough.  Stir inward the chopped chocolate together with hazelnuts.

   
   


3. 
   
   Now add together some of the remaining flour stirring alongside a wooden spoon until the dough is soft, simply nevertheless sticky.  I used the remaining 1 1/2 cups, simply no more.  Cover together with allow the dough rising inward a warm house until it doubles inward size (about 1 hour).
   
   


4. 
   
   Grease a 2-quart circular or foursquare baking dish.  Punch downward the dough together with transfer to the prepared pan. Cover together with allow the dough rising in i lawsuit to a greater extent than inward a warm house until double inward size (about 1 hour).
   
   


5. 
   
   Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a small-scale bowl trounce the remaining egg alongside 1 tablespoon H2O until blended.  Brush the egg mixture on the transcend of the breadstuff together with thus sprinkle alongside the turbinado (or coarse) sugar.
   
   


6. 
   
   Bake for l minutes or until the loaf sounds hollow when lightly tapped.  Cover the breadstuff alongside foil afterward the starting fourth dimension xx minutes of baking to foreclose over browning.  Cool inward the dish for almost 10 minutes together with thus transfer to a rack to cool completely.  Serve alongside Nutella if desired.
   
   

Recipe Notes

Make certain the butter together with milk mixture is non likewise hot.  Anything inward a higher house 120-130 degrees volition kill the yeast.

Baking fourth dimension may vary depending on the size of the pan used to bake the bread.  If the loaf is non rattling thick, banking concern tally at the xxx infinitesimal interval.  For a thick loaf, bake 45-50 minutes.

If baking inward a drinking glass pan, move certain to trim the oven temperature to 325 degrees.

(recipe adapted from Better Home together with Gardens Jan 2012)

Recipe originally posted on May 27, 2013. Photos together with recipe updated.

If you lot honey the chocolate together with hazelnut combination, don’t immature adult woman our fabulous Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse Cake!  It is thus much easier to brand than you lot would intend together with it’s thus pretty too.  Sue from The View from Great Island of late posted an amazingly simple, rich together with creative recipe for Drinkable Nutella.  If you lot were wondering what to practise alongside leftover Nutella together with evaporated milk, move certain to endeavor her recipe!  For the holidays I wishing to endeavor these Chocolate Hazelnut Crunch Truffles from Sally’s Baking Addiction.  And don’t immature adult woman this Flourless Chocolate-Hazelnut Cake Recipe from Epicurious.  It looks amazing!

Thanks thus much for stopping past times together with promise you lot bring a cracking week!

Tricia

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