Christmas Chocolate Chunk Cherry Chacon
Yes, it is a 5 C alliteration Holiday bread inspired by trailrunner’s chocolate cherry bread posted earlier this week found here Chocolate sourdough enhanced bread
Sometimes Lucy sees a post on TFL and just has to move her version of it to the top of the bake list – and this was one of those times.
Lucy cit the recipe in half, used weights instead of volume, used white whole wheat for about a third of the flour putting it all in the levain and poolish, used yeast water and a small 50 g pinch of ADY poolish for the leaven, Used the dried cherry re-hydration for part of liquid, increased the butter and chocolate chunk a bit, did an 18 hour retard of the shaped dough and formed it into a chacon to complete the special effects for Holidays.
Other than that, it was very close to trailrunner’s inspiration. We love the chocolate and cherry combination and it made for a fine looking and working dough. We used the KA mixer with dough hook, for the time in ages, to do the 10 minutes of kneading and then followed that with 3 stets of stretch and folds to get the gluten developed.
Part of the dough was then shaped into a knotted roll which was surrounded by 8 balls of 2 different sizes to make the design for the chacon. The rest of the dough was formed into an oval bialy to place over the design in the oval basket.
The dough spent an hour in the heating pad before going into the fridge for a 18 hour retard. While in the fridge the dough did absolutely nothing so, we took it out in the morning and put it on the heating pad for 7 hours to see if it would get to 85% proof. It never really did much so we baked it off.
Sure enough the chacon bloomed and cracked where we thought it would and it turned out OK looking on the outside. It sure smelled great baking its way to 205 F on the inside. Can't wait to cut into it and give it a taste. Well, it tastes great......the chocolate and cherries go so well together. The crumb is soft moist and more open than we thought it would be too. This is what Lucy calls a desert bread. Toasted with butter is about as good as it gets! It is a fine Holiday bread for sure.
Thanks trailrunner for the inspiration and your beautiful post of this bread.
Cherry Chocolate Chunk French toast breakfast at dabrownman's per Ian's recommendation.
Formula
Yeast Water Build | Build 1 | Build 2 | Build 3 | Total | % |
Pinch of ADY |
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Yeast Water | 70 | 30 |
| 100 | 20.83% |
White Whole Wheat | 70 | 30 | 50 | 150 | 31.25% |
Water | 0 | 0 | 50 | 50 | 10.42% |
Total | 140 | 60 |
| 250 | 52.08% |
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Yeast Water & Pinch of ADY Poolish |
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Flour | 150 | 31.25% |
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Water | 150 | 31.25% |
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Starter Hydration | 100.00% |
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Levain % of Total | 25.45% |
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Dough Flour |
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AP | 330 | 68.75% |
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Total Dough Flour | 330 | 68.75% |
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Salt | 8 | 1.67% |
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Cherry Re-hydration 100, Water 107 | 207 | 43.13% |
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Dough Hydration w/o starter | 62.73% |
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Tot. Hydration w/ Starter | 74.38% |
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Total Flour | 480 |
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YW 100, Cherry Water 100, & Water | 357 |
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Total Hydration with Adds | 76.90% |
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Total Weight | 1,179 |
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Add - Ins |
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Butter | 48 | 10.00% |
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Dried Cherries | 60 | 12.50% |
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Sugar | 98 | 20.42% |
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VWG | 5 | 1.04% |
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Cocoa | 18 | 3.75% |
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Chocolate Chunks | 100 | 20.83% |
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Total | 334 | 69.58% |
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Comments
I am so glad you and Lucy "ran" with the chocolate and cherries ! What a treat your bread looks. You relied heavily on the YW and levain to raise the bread. WIth the butter and chocolate and sugar it probably should have had a bigger pinch of yeast...but you made it work which is all that counts. I had a slice last night with hot ginger tea...yum. c
to try to get it to proof in less than 18 hours in the fridge and 8 on the counter :-) It sure is delicious. Perfect for a little sweet and chocolate late night snack with a warm cup a tea - sounds terrific! Next time i'm taking the cherries up to the weight of the chocolate too. Can't have too many cherries! Thanks for the inspiration trailrunner. A perfect bread for the holidays.
Happy baking
Yum! This looks fantastic. I wanted to make this myself but my wife insisted on the challah. Just ate a piece of mine and it does taste good. Will have to try a version of this next to compare.
Nice adaptation as usual and beautiful looking overall. French toast will be a treat!
The chocolate cherry challah has to be pretty good too! This one is a sweet, chocolaty cherry treat. Will try the French toast tomorrow for sure. I've been snacking on it toasted with butter and that is awful good. Nothing like a chocolate anything to get one hungry.
Happy baking Ian
A great adaptation of Tr's lovely chocolate SD!
bake Khalid. Made some fine French toast too! Got my YW and SD starter going for this year's stollen that is 5 weeks late:-) I'm still thinking about your deserts!
Happy baking