CHOCOLATE BREAD day one....

The wife comes home from work Tuesday:
"I ran into JV and she was coming out of the cafe with this big piece of chocolate bread with chocolate chips and I was thinking 'I want some of that!'"
It happens to be somebody's birthday this week, so you know, I am alert to the desires and whims of the birthday girl and secretly look up chocolate bread.  I have never had it or seen it, have you?

SO, I spend a little time looking around and come up with an awesome and easy chocolate yeast bread recipe, which I fiddle with and adjust and add chocolate chips to ***
and it is...magnificent.  The bread is also so easy to make I was like "drop the chocolate and try it as a plain wheat bread???" which was ALSO magnificent.

OK, but then, later Wednesday, the wife gets home?  And she loves it!
But then she describes what her friend had further...and I realize she is describing not the yeast bread I had made, BUT a sweet quick bread.  Which looks and sounds a lot like cake....
MORE ON THAT FRIDAY when we go to CHOCOLATE BREAD day 2...but for now....



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Chocolate bread with chocolate chunks

Ingredients:

dash salt

• 1  cup warm water (110 degrees F) 
  1 tbs oil
  1.25 teas yeast
  3 cups flour
  2.25 tbs sugar
  3/8 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  3/4 cup chocolate chips or chunks
  
  
  directions:

1. Combine water, sugar, yeast, then flour, salt, cocoa, oil,  in a large bowl, floding in the chunks gently. Stir everything with a wooden spoon until you have a soft dough--may need a little more water.
2. Place the dough on a lightly floured surface. Knead for five minutes, until smooth and elastic.
3. Make a nice dough ball. Place on a baking sheet or in a greased iron skillet. Cover with a kitchen towel. Let rise until double in size.
4. Bake at 425 degrees F (220 degrees C) for 35 minutes
5. derived from http://www.yummly.com/recipe/Chocolate-Bread-Allrecipes?columns=3&position=9/36