Chocolate Yeast Bread for #BreadBakers Recipe
Ingredients
- 1½cups
- Bread Flour
- ½cup
- Wholewheat Flour (if not using wholewheat flour, use 2cups of bread flour)
- 2¼tsp
- Instant Yeast
- 6tbsp
- Sugar
- 4tbsp
- Butter
- 3oz.
- Bittersweet or Semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 1½tsp
- Espresso powder or instant coffee (optional)
- ¾tsp
- Salt
- 1tbsp
- Egg replacer powder (or 1 large Egg)
- ½tsp
- Vanilla Extract
- ¼cup
- Dutch processed Cocoa powder
- ¾cup
- Semisweet chocolate chips
- ½cup
- Toasted Almonds or walnuts or pecans (optional)
- ¾cup
- Lukewarm Milk (whole or 2%)
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Nutrition Facts
| Amount Per Recipe | %DV |
|---|---|
| Recipe Size 120g | |
| Calories 146 | |
| Calories from Fat 43 | 29% |
| Total Fat 4.93g | 6% |
| Saturated Fat 2.81g | 11% |
| Trans Fat 0.0g | |
| Cholesterol 18mg | 6% |
| Sodium 379mg | 16% |
| Potassium 289mg | 8% |
| Total Carbs 12.58g | 3% |
| Dietary Fiber 1.5g | 5% |
| Sugars 4.76g | 3% |
| Protein 13.68g | 22% |
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