Chocolate Swirl Bread/Babka Bread

Chocolate Swirl Bread / Babka Bread

Do you have a sweet Tooth?Are you craving for a delicious chocolatey dessert ?So give a try to this Babka Bread! A sweet leavened bread made with a rich melted chocolate filled dough would definitely satisfy your sweet cravings.Its basically a traditional cake ,which is being made on special occasions ,specially on Christmas or Easter Sunday to celebrate the rising of Christ
This bread is made from eggs but i have made it egg less means a pure veg bread which has risen up so well and it tastes heaven!

This is my first try on baking a sweet bread ,though i have tried many savoury breads and it tastes amazing ,but this bread is now in one of my favourites list because i love eating sweet dishes.This bread is not too sweet ,as the bread is balancing the taste of chocolate.I have used @Hershey's Choco Spread but you can use any chocolate its up to you.
So a must try recipe is here on my blog.Do give a try -

  
Ingredients -

1. All purpose flour -2 and 1/2 cup
2. Dry active yeast -1 and 1/2 tbsp
3. Warm milk - 1 1/2 cup
4. Soft yellow butter -2 tbsp
5. Sugar - 2 tbsp
6. Chocolate spread 

Method -

1. Take a small bowl and add yeast and sugar in it mix it with a spoon.
2. Now add warm milk and mix it well.
3. Cover the bowl with a lid and keep it aside for at least 15 minutes or till your yeast mix turns frothy and bubbly.
4. Now take a Big bowl and add All Purpose flour.
5. Add soft butter and mix it well with your fingers.
6. Now add your yeast concoction gradually in the dry flour.
7. Do not put all the wet yeast concoction.
8. Add slowly and start kneading the dough.
9. The dough should not be very soft neither too hard.
10. Punch and stretch the dough for about 5 minutes.
11. Now take a cling film and cover the dough with it and keep it for 1 hour or till the dough rises up.( mine dough has risen up in 1/2 an hour it depends on the yeast you are using)
12. After 1 hour knead and punch the dough again and spread some dry flour on your kitchen slab.
13. Take a roller pin and start rolling the dough in a rectangular shape about 1 cm thick or 1/3 of an inch.
14. Now spread your chocolate spread and roll up from the long side of the rectangle.
15. After this step cut through the centre of the roll and twist each side over the other.
16. Bring the two ends of the twisted bread together and seal the ends.
17. Now take a bread tin and grease it with some butter.
18. Pre-Heat the oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes.
19. Now keep your tin in the oven and bake it at 200 degrees for 30 minutes.
20. After 30 minutes take the tin out and give a milk wash to your bread by applying little milk with a brush on the bread and again keep it in the oven for more 10 minutes.
21. After 10 minutes take the tin out and let the bread cool down.
22. Take out your Babka Bread and enjoy.