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Chocolate Babka

Name: Chocolate Babka
Total time: 180 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Israel
Ingredients: 300g Bread flour; 90g Butter; 100g Sugar; 2 Egg; 100ml Milk; 2 tsp Dry yeast; A pinch Salt; 100g Chocolate; 2 tbsp Cocoa powder; 50ml Water

Dessert

⏱ 180 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Brioche dough rolled with chocolate, twisted, and baked — a much-loved Israeli sweet bread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Babka is a sweet bread brought by Eastern European Jews. In Israel's bakeries and cafés, the classic version has chocolate filling rolled in, twisted, and baked into a swirled loaf, brushed with syrup while hot to keep it moist. Many people buy one on Friday before the Sabbath.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Tel Aviv bakery window, twisted chocolate-swirled loaves are lined up and people buy them on Friday afternoon.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 300g
Butter 90g
Sugar 100g
Egg 2
Milk 100ml
Dry yeast 2 tsp
Salt A pinch
Chocolate 100g
Cocoa powder 2 tbsp
Water 50ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead bread flour, 30g sugar, yeast, salt, egg, and warm milk, work in 50g butter until smooth, and let rise for 1.5 hours.
Melt the chocolate with the remaining butter and mix in the cocoa and 30g sugar.
Roll the dough to 30 × 40 cm, spread with the filling, and roll up from the long side.
Cut in half lengthwise, twist the two halves together cut side up, put in a loaf pan, and let rise 30 minutes.
Bake at 180°C for 35 minutes and brush with syrup made from the remaining sugar and water while hot.

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