Homemade chocolate babka is another family favorite. We first heard about chocolate babka when we lived in Arizona. Our littles were watching an episode of Blippi visiting Lior the Baker in Scottsdale, Arizona. We decided to venture out and visit the bakery to get some treats. The chocolate babka did not disappoint! We moved to Texas and our children started asking for babka, and I had to start learning how to make it. I made some last year and it turned out well, but I wasn’t happy with it. After reading different recipes, I decided to try again and the results were delicious! Definitely a beautiful bread with delicious chocolate throughout!
I make my dough in the bread machine (we absolutely love our bread machine and highly recommend it), but you can make it by hand if you don’t have one. I don’t follow how many recipes instruct you to let the dough rest overnight. If you are capable of making cinnamon rolls from scratch, you can make a chocolate babka! If you make it, let us know with a comment and leave a rating for our recipe!
Items that can help you to make your babka:
Zojirushi BB-PDC20BA Home Bakery Virtuoso Plus Breadmaker
Etekcity 0.1g Food Kitchen Scale
OXO Good Grips NEW Large 4-Inch Pizza Wheel and Cutter
SILIVO Silicone Bread and Loaf Pans (2 Pack)
Lodge Cast Iron Loaf Pan 8.5×4.5 Inch (I hope to upgrade to these soon)
If You Care Parchment Baking Paper
HOTEC Silicone Basting Pastry Brush
Chocolate Babka
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hoursChocolate babka is an incredibly delicious bread with swirls of chocolate. If you can make cinnamon rolls, you can make a babka!
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Ingredients
- For the Dough
1 cup 1 whole milk (240 g)
2 large 2 eggs (beaten)
1 teaspoon 1 vanilla extract
4 cups 4 all purpose flour (480 g)
1/3 cup 1/3 granulated sugar (67 g)
1/2 teaspoon 1/2 salt (3 g)
1/2 cup 1/2 unsalted butter (115 g), sliced into tablepsoons
1 tablepsoon 1 active dry or instant yeast (9 g)
- For the Chocolate Filling
1 cup 1 dark chocolate chips
1/2 cup 1/2 unsalted butter
1/4 cup 1/4 powdered sugar
2 tablespoons 2 cocoa or cacao powder
1 teaspoon 1 cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon 1/4 kosher sea salt
- For the Syrup
1/3 cup 1/3 water
1/3 cup 1/3 sugar
Directions
- For the Dough
- Weigh and measure all the ingredients and place in bread machine pan.
Add liquids first and then dry goods. (If your bread machine requires, ensure all liquids are the correct temperature.)
Set bread machine to dough cycle. - Make the Chocolate Filling
- As the dough is being made, melt the dark chocolate chips and butter together in a small pot on the stove over medium-low heat.
In a separate bowl, mix the sugar, cocoa or cacao powder, cinnamon, and salt.
Add the sugar mixture to. the melted chocolate and stir until smooth.
Allow to cool in fridge until dough is ready. - Assemble the Babka
- Divide the dough in half. (The scale is useful here!)
Roll out half the dough to about 12″ x 16″.
Spread half the chocolate filling evenly over the dough.
Starting on the short side, roll the dough tightly into a log. - Cut the log in half lengthwise.
Twist the halves together.
Keep the cut sides facing up.
Tuck the ends.
Place in a loaf pan lined with parchment paper. - Repeat steps 1 and 2 with the other half of the dough.
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
Allow the babka to rise while the oven is preheating. - Bake the Babka & Make the Syrup
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, until golden brown and cooked through.
- In a sauce pan, combine water and sugar. Simmer until the sugar dissolves.
- Brush the syrup over the babka while its warm.
- Allow the babka to cool slightly before slicing.
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Notes
- You can definitely make this without a bread machine. Just follow the normal procedure for making dough similar to cinnamon rolls.
- If you can’t refrigerate the chocolate after it is made, or didn’t get to it right away, the chocolate will be softer and will be messier.
- If you want a “neater” babka, with cleaner lines, wait to assemble it when the chocolate has cooled and thickened. You can also refrigerate your dough a little so it isn’t so soft to help with a neater presentation.
- Making babka gets messy when the chocolate gets on the dough, no worries! It will still be beautiful and tasty!
- You can use granulated sugar in the chocolate filling but we found it to be a little gritty.
- I brush the syrup on, but I also have scooped it on and drizzled it all over. Both work well and fine!
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