Chocolate Marble Bread Recipe/Marble Swirl Bread/Chocolate Marble Swirl Bread Recipe.

Some times you get instant cravings at any part of the day and the urge is so intense that there's no way you can suppress..It happens to me number of times..I was craving for some chocolate cake and also wanted to bake a bread then suddenly while mixing the ingredients in the bread dough i thought of mixing cocoa powder and  making a marble chocolate bread instead..I had bookmarked  this  Asian Chocolate Marble Bread long time back but that called for water roux and  i had almost started mixing the dough .So i just continued with the same  and was more than happy and satisfied with the result..The Marble Swirl bread was cotton soft and looked very beautiful ....its was really difficult for me to resist but as i baked it at 3 am I sat quietly just staring at this beauty and waited for the morning to relish it...
 It was really soft and delish ,tasted good by itself and tasted more delish when had with nutella...

ingredients
3 cup flour
1/4 cup cream
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup lukewarm water
1.5 tsp yeast
1/3 cup +1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp butter
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp oil
2 tsp cocoa powder

Method

• Dissolve the yeast in water with 1 tbsp sugar let it sit till its frothy.
• Mix salt ,flour sugar in a bowl.
• Add the yeast mixture to the flour with the cream ,milk and knead for 8-10 min.
• Mix in the butter and oil and knead to soft dough.
• Divide the dough into two portion into the  smaller dough  one add cocoa powder
• Knead till the cocoa is mixed well .
• Cover and let the dough rise to double its volume.
• Knock down the dough and shape it into balls.
• Flatten each ball and roll into circle.
• Place the chocolate circle over the plain dough alternatively.
• Roll it into cylinder then flatten it by using rolling pin.
• With the knife cut into three.
•  Braid the dough. Put the dough in the lightly greased pan.
• Cover and let if rise for 30-45 min
• Brush  with milk and bake for 30-35 min at 180 degree Celsius.
• Remove from the tin and cover with clean towel and allow to cool completely .