Chocolate Bread (Pane al Cioccolato)

While Support Your Hero, sponsored by Indesit, continues with all its excitement, I dream of tasting Italian food in Milan. It would be really great to experience a cuisine that I like at least as much as our own kitchen :)

Of course, while dreaming, I do some research about that kitchen. The thing that caught my attention the most recently was the Chocolate Bread.

Although it seems quite different to us, Chocolate Bread is a classic Italian recipe, its original name is "Pane al Cioccolato". In Italy, they serve this bread with gorgonzola or marscarpone cheese.

Even as you knead the dough, you feel the beauty that will emerge at the end :) You can serve it with coffee, milk or wine accompanied by a delicious cheese.

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Ingredients for Chocolate Bread (Pane al Cioccolato) Recipe

• 4 water glass flour
• 3 tablespoons cocoa or 4 tablespoons hot chocolate powder
• 1,5 tea spoon salt
• 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons butter (room temperature)
• 1 pack of instant yeast
• 1 glass of warm water + 1 fingers less than 2 glass of warm water (300 ml)
• 1,5 teaspoon of chocolate chips

To assemble the dough:

• Half a glass of flour

To ride on it:

• 2 tablespoons of melted butter

How to Make Chocolate Bread (Pane al Cioccolato) Recipe?

1. Take 4 cups of flour in a deep mixing bowl. Add powdered sugar, salt, hot chocolate powder, instant yeast and butter.
2. Add lukewarm water and knead well. Get an elastic and slightly sticky dough.
3. Take the dough onto the floured counter. Knead a dough that does not stick to the hand by adding chocolate chips and sprinkling flour from time to time.
4. Divide the dough into 2 parts and turn it by hand to make 2 loaves.
5. Take it on a lightly oiled tray and leave it to ferment for 2 hours.
6. Bake in a preheated oven at 220 degrees for 10 minutes for your fermented bread to quickly form a crust.
7. After 10 minutes, reduce the temperature of the oven to 190 degrees and bake for another 20-25 minutes.
8. Serve your bread chilled on a wire rack and sliced.