Chocolate Brioche Babka
Everything that a babka should be. Soft, sweet and over flowing with chocolate.
Equipment
- Kitchen Aid
- 2 loaf pans (8 inches by 4 inches)
Ingredients
Babka Brioche Dough
- 3/4 cup Warm Water
- 2.5 tsp Dry Active Yeast
- 4 cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1/2 cups Sugar divided
- 1 tsp Fine Sea Salt
- 3 Eggs
- 10 Tbsp SOFT butter
Chocolate Filling
- 6 oz Dark Chocolate (70% at minimum)
- 1/2 cups Melted Butter
- 2/3 cups Powdered Sugar
- 1/2 cups Dark Cocoa Powder
- 1 tbsp Coffee Extract or vanilla extract
Simple Syrup
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
Instructions
Day 1- Babka Brioche Dough
- Combine yeast, warm water, and 1 teaspoon yeast and let sit for 5 minutes for the yeast to bloom
- Combine flour, remaining sugar, and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer, whisk to combine before switching to the dough hook. Pour in yeast mixture and mix. If needed add a tablespoon of water for the dough to be fully incorporated.
- Add eggs and mix to combine.
- Incorporate butter, 1 tablespoon at a time. Butter should be so soft that it just melts into the dough, scraping down the bowl as needed.
- If needed, add flour to help dough release from the sides of the bowl and kneed on medium speed for 5-8 minutes. The dough should be soft and but not tacky.
- In a greased covered bowl or container, let the dough rest in the fridge for 12-24 hours. Dough should have enough space to rise in container.
Day 2- Chocoalte Filling, Baking and Simple Syrup
- When the dough has risen, combined all ingredients for the chocolate filling in a saucepan and mix to combined melting the chocolate to combine. Let cool and grease two bread pans.
- Split the dough in half and roll one half into a 14 by 10-inch rectangle.
- Spread half of the chocolate mixture on the dough and roll up along the short edge. If the dough is warm, put in the fridge to chill.
- Split the log down the center leaving the top inch of the dough together. Braid right over left to the bottom and pinch to close. Put in tin to rest for an hour.
- Repeat with other half of dough.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake for 20-25 minutes. If Brioche starts to brown too quickly, cover in tinfoil.
- While babkas bake, make a Simple Syrup by boiling sugar and water together. Brush over both loaves as soon as it comes out of the oven, use all of it!