Based on this video
Ingredients:
Dough:
- Warm milk – 160 ml
- 2 large eggs
- All-purpose flour – 400g
- Active dry yeast – 6g
- Granulated sugar – 50g
- Unsalted butter, melted – 60g
- A pinch of salt
Chocolate Filling (keep it in fridge so it is easy to chop)
- Unsalted butter, softened: 45 g
- White chocolate – 100g
- Milk chocolate – 100g
- Dark chocolate – 100g
Brushing & Topping:
- Milk + softened butter – for brushing before baking
- Chopped chocolate – reserve some from the filling for topping
Process:
- Mix milk, yeast, sugar.
- Add eggs, pinch salt, melted butter and mix
- Add flour shifted and mix
- Then manually knead until smooth
- Rest for 1h
- Chop the chocolate
- Dough should be double, diflate and roll it in a surface with flour. Make a big rectangle
- Brush melted butter apart from one side so you can seal it when rolling
- Trim edges if needed
- Spread chocolate evenly across the whole surface. Press with the rolling pin
- Roll the dough tightly up. Be careful
- Pinch the edges and the seal.
- Cut the log in half, lengthwise.
- Braid the two halves.
- Move the log to the loaf pan (with baking paper)
- Rest for 20 minutes
- Brush it with the butter-milk mix.
- Bake at 180°C for 30–35 minutes, or until beautifully golden brown. Dont use the grill
- Brush it again with butter-milk so it shines.
This is my result:
It doesnt look as nice as in the video but it was tasty. And it is not actually difficult. I made mistake as using the grill and I think I should have tighted the roll better and use the rolling pin to press the choco chips. I was surprised how easy was to knead it.