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Never Enough Bread
Jul. 8th, 2021 07:40 pmHaving made the brioche dough the night before, I felt comfortable sleeping in.
I got up around 9:30 and had breakfast. It was a little blustery due to Elsa passing through, but otherwise the weather was just normal Florida weather.
I started assembling the chocolate filling after Jameson got up and while sipping my hot coffee.
It was cream, sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla, and butter.
I also added some instant coffee to help enhance the flavor of the chocolate (because I watch too much Food Network and they're always saying to add coffee to chocolate), but I added a little too much. Someone online had suggested between 2-4 teaspoons, and I went with two. But when I stop to consider that 1 tsp coffee makes about one cup, one would have been enough. It's not ruined, but now I can taste the coffee in there so it's become a chocolate coffee babka. Whuuuups.
When the filling was made I let it cool in the fridge, and rolled the brioche dough out on the counter. I tried to get it as thin as I could, but more practice is needed with that. Also the fudge ended up being a LOT of fudge, and it was pretty thick, so I found getting lots of swirls to be a little difficult. Oh well, it's a first try.
When the filling had been spread I rolled up my dough and chilled it for a minute, then cut the roll in half lengthwise and twisted the two halves together, cramming them into a bread pan. It looks nice...I wonder how it will turn out!
Then it was into the microwave with a hot mug of water to proof, while I ran to Target for La Croix and batteries and something for dinner tonight. I've never been deeply into seltzer water, but sometimes I get that craving for fizzy drinks. The nice thing about La Croix is, they don't add acid to it, so it doesn't hurt my stomach.
Back home we had lunch, then Jameson got to work on the Christmas production music he's doing for a friend while I kind of lazed around, feeling rather unmotivated. I did make two doctors' appointments, one for my PCP and one for the OBGYN, just because I'm due for regular exams. When the bread was ready I threw it in the oven, then forgot to put on the egg wash so pulled it out, then saw that the chocolate was running everywhere so opened the oven again to put a pan under the loaf in case of leaks. So now the bread probably has to bake for like 10 minutes longer, sigh.
While it was baking I wrote some letters to friends and family, and listened to some music related to Stuff and Things.
Finally the babka was done:
Looks pretty good! It was good that I thought to shove a sheet tray under the pan because chocolate leaked EVERYWHERE. Maybe next time, a different recipe for the filling so it won't go all over. Still, some babkas are like that, it's just your personal preference. This one looked great and tastes great too. I'm very happy with it.
I cut up half the loaf to bring to my coworkers (shhh don't tell, we're not supposed to be sharing food re: covid) and bagged the rest, then went into steno class. I still suck but felt glad that I'd practiced, I was at least able to keep up.
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I got up around 9:30 and had breakfast. It was a little blustery due to Elsa passing through, but otherwise the weather was just normal Florida weather.
I started assembling the chocolate filling after Jameson got up and while sipping my hot coffee.
It was cream, sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla, and butter.
I also added some instant coffee to help enhance the flavor of the chocolate (because I watch too much Food Network and they're always saying to add coffee to chocolate), but I added a little too much. Someone online had suggested between 2-4 teaspoons, and I went with two. But when I stop to consider that 1 tsp coffee makes about one cup, one would have been enough. It's not ruined, but now I can taste the coffee in there so it's become a chocolate coffee babka. Whuuuups.
When the filling was made I let it cool in the fridge, and rolled the brioche dough out on the counter. I tried to get it as thin as I could, but more practice is needed with that. Also the fudge ended up being a LOT of fudge, and it was pretty thick, so I found getting lots of swirls to be a little difficult. Oh well, it's a first try.
When the filling had been spread I rolled up my dough and chilled it for a minute, then cut the roll in half lengthwise and twisted the two halves together, cramming them into a bread pan. It looks nice...I wonder how it will turn out!
Then it was into the microwave with a hot mug of water to proof, while I ran to Target for La Croix and batteries and something for dinner tonight. I've never been deeply into seltzer water, but sometimes I get that craving for fizzy drinks. The nice thing about La Croix is, they don't add acid to it, so it doesn't hurt my stomach.
Back home we had lunch, then Jameson got to work on the Christmas production music he's doing for a friend while I kind of lazed around, feeling rather unmotivated. I did make two doctors' appointments, one for my PCP and one for the OBGYN, just because I'm due for regular exams. When the bread was ready I threw it in the oven, then forgot to put on the egg wash so pulled it out, then saw that the chocolate was running everywhere so opened the oven again to put a pan under the loaf in case of leaks. So now the bread probably has to bake for like 10 minutes longer, sigh.
While it was baking I wrote some letters to friends and family, and listened to some music related to Stuff and Things.
Finally the babka was done:
Looks pretty good! It was good that I thought to shove a sheet tray under the pan because chocolate leaked EVERYWHERE. Maybe next time, a different recipe for the filling so it won't go all over. Still, some babkas are like that, it's just your personal preference. This one looked great and tastes great too. I'm very happy with it.
I cut up half the loaf to bring to my coworkers (shhh don't tell, we're not supposed to be sharing food re: covid) and bagged the rest, then went into steno class. I still suck but felt glad that I'd practiced, I was at least able to keep up.
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