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No-knead chocolate bread

Intense and flavourful no-knead bread with chocolate, dark cocoa and raisins with rum. Semi sweet easy bread recipe.
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Course bread
Cuisine vegetarian
Servings 1 big loaf
Calories 343 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 400 g of all-purpose or bread flour
  • 60 g of wholemeal flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon of active dry yeast (half)
  • 400 ml of water
  • 30 - 40 g of dark cocoa powder
  • 60 g of sugar
  • 80 g of raisins
  • boiling water
  • 20 ml of rum
  • 60 g of dark chocolate chips

Instructions
 

Instructions no-knead chocolate bread – the cocoa dough

  • The evening before baking, take a rather large bowl. Add all-purpose or bread flour, wholemeal flour, a pinch of salt and dark cocoa powder and sugar. Whisk. Add half a teaspoon of active dry yeast and 400 ml of room temperature water.
  • Stir quickly just to mix all the ingredients. Then cover with a plastic wrap or a cotton cloth. Let it rise at room temperature for at least 8 hours (it took 12 hours for me).
  • The next morning the dough should be puffed and full of bubbles.
  • Take the dried raisins and pour them into a cup. Cover with boiling water just to submerge them and add 20 ml of rum. Leave to soak for 30 minutes. After this time, drain and add to your dough. At this point also add your dark chocolate chips.
  • Knead the dough briefly to mix in the raisins and the chocolate chips and to give the dough a little tension. Line a bowl or basket with parchment paper and transfer the bread to it. Let rise for another two hours or until it doubles in volume.
  • The rising times are approximate, it can take more or less time depending on the temperature of the environment, the freshness of the yeast, the strength of the flour and other factors not related to the recipe.

The baking method

  • For this recipe I used baking in a cast iron pot with a lid. You can use any pot that is suitable for the oven: cast iron, steel or glass. It is important that your pot have a lid. Alternatively, cook directly on the preheated oven tray.
  • Preheat the oven to 250 °C leaving the pot in it. Once the temperature is reached carefully remove the pan from the oven and fill it with the bread while holding the parchment paper. Bake for 30 minutes with the lid on, then lower the temperature to 200 °C and bake for 15 minutes with the uncovered pot (50 min on the baking tray).

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Notes

Minimum 8 hours waiting time plus 2 hours for the second leavening time.
The nutritional values are generated automatically for indicative purposes only and are therefore not completely accurate.

Nutrition

Serving: 1loafCalories: 343kcal
Keyword bread with active dry yeast, chocolate, dark chocolate, easy bread, homamade bread, no-knead bread
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