Posts Tagged ‘bread’

6
Feb

Chocolate Spice Bread

   Posted by: admin    in Quickbreads, Recipes

Yield: 1 25cm loaf

 

Ingredients

 

240g dried cherries

5 eggs

140g sugar

100g honey

100g flour

20g unsweetened cocoa powder

60g ground pecans

1 pkg dry yeast

1 tsp cinnamon

200g bittersweet chocolate

100g melted butter

50g whole pecans

50g walnuts

 

Preheat oven to 300F.  Butter a 25cm loaf pan.

Place cherries in a saucepan; cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and let simmer for 30 minutes.  Drain thoroughly, then add whole pecans and walnuts and then lightly chop.

Combine eggs, honey and sugar.  Beat with electric mixer until firm.

Sift flour, cocoa, ground pecans, yeast and cinnamon.

Melt chocolate.  Add butter to chocolate.  Let cool to room temperature.

Gently whisk the egg-sugar mixture into the chocolate.  Fold in the flour mixture. Then, fold in the cherry- mixture.

Pour batter into buttered loaf pan.  Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 1 hour, until a cake tester inserted in center of loaf come out clean.

Cool for 1 hour before serving.

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1
Nov

Chocolate Chip Banana Nut Bread

   Posted by: admin    in Quickbreads, Recipes

My children love this! It doesn’t last more than two or three days. Give it a try and tell me what you think.

2 cups flour, all-purpose
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup pecans, chopped
1/4 cup chocolate chips, semi-sweet
1/8 tsp salt
2 eggs
1/4 cup butter, melted
3 bananas, mashed

Preheat oven to 350F.
Butter and flour sides and bottom of a 9 1/4 x 5 1/4 x 2 1/4 inch loaf pan.
Mix dry ingredients.
In separate bowl, mix wet ingredients.
Add dry mixture to wet mixture.
Mix just until dry ingredients are moist.
Pour batter into loaf pan and bake 40 minutes, out until cake tester comes out clean.
Cool on rack for 10 minutes.

Serve with hot butter, or clotted cream.

So tell me, do you like it?

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