Chocolate Braid
A wonderful and appetizing dessert. It is recommended to use high-quality chocolate paste (or melted chocolate). This amount of ingredients makes 2 braids.
- Total cooking time
- not set
- Number of servings
- 2
- Recipe difficulty
- 4 / 5
Ingredients
for 2 servings
- milk 200 ml
- butter 100 g
- sugar 50-70 g
- vanilla sugar 10 g
- egg 1
- dry yeast 8 g
- 1/4 tsp salt
- flour 400-450 g
- chocolate paste 200 g
Instructions
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Warm the milk (it should be warm, not hot).
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Add 1 tbsp sugar.
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Add yeast.
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Mix.
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Leave for a while to rise.
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Add sugar and vanilla sugar.
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Add butter and salt.
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Mix.
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Add egg.
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Mix.
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Add flour. Knead the dough.
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Let it rise.
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Divide the dough into 2 parts. Roll out each part into a rectangle of approximately 20×50 cm.
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Spread with paste.
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Roll up into a log.
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Pinch the edges.
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Cut without going all the way through.
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Braid them together.
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Lightly grease a baking pan (I have a 20×10 cm pan) with butter. Place the braid inside. Put it in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake for 40–45 minutes.