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Chocolate Pull Apart Bread Recipe

Ingredients
  

For The Tangzhong

  • All Purpose Flour-1/6 cup
  • Milk-1/2 cup

For The Filling

  • Butter - 2-3 tbs
  • Grated Chocolate - 1/4 cup
  • Sugar - 2tbs

For The Dough

  • All Purpose Flour-2 1/2 cups
  • Sugar-3 1/2 tbs
  • Salt-1 tsp
  • Water – 3/4 cup
  • Milk Powder-1 1/2 tbs
  • Instant Yeast-2 tsp
  • Butter-3 tbs

Instructions
 

For the Tangzhong

  • Mix flour and milk.
  • Whisk until you get a lump free mixture.
  • Keep it on stove and keep on stirring until the mixture turns into a clumpy dough.
  • Remove from flame, pour the tangzhong into a bowl and cover with cling wrap.
  • The cling wrap should touch the surface of the tangzhong prepared.
  • Allow it to cool.

For The Bread

  • In a bowl add flour, salt, sugar and yeast.
  • Make a well in the centre and add the prepared tangzhong.
  • Add water and make a soft sticky dough.
  • Add butter and knead until incorporated.
  • Take the dough to the counter and knead continuously for 10 minutes.
  • The dough should pass the window pane test.
  • Roll the dough into a ball.
  • Grease a bowl with oil, place the dough into it and slightly rotate to coat the dough with oil.
  • Cover with cling wrap and set it aside for 1 hour.
  • Once the dough is double, transfer to counter and press.
  • Preheat oven to 200°C.
  • Dust with flour and roll out each ball into a thin disc.
  • Apply butter all over the rectangle.
  • Sprinkle chocolate and sugar evenly.
  • Starting from the longest side, roll it into a log.
  • Grease a baking tray with butter and place the log on it.
  • Using a scissors, cut out 3/4th of the log into 1" thick slices and arrange them as leaves. Take a look at the video to know about the shaping.
  • Apply milk wash all over the bread.
  • Bake in a preheated oven to 25-30 minutes or until the top is nicely brown.
  • Remove from oven and serve the roll warm.