Mocha Panettone

Panettone is a traditional Italian Christmasbread. Now I know it’s nowhere near christmas and I’m not Italian either. But then you see a recipe called “Mocha Panettone” and it look like an overly delicious chocolate bread, then you have to try it right?



Ingredients:
2 tablespoons instant coffee powder
140 ml milk
1 egg and 2 egg yolks
400 grams white bread flour
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons caster sugar
75 grams butter
1 1/2 teaspoon dried yeast
115 grams chocolate
3 tablespoons pine nuts

1. Mix the coffee powder with 2 spoons boiling water. Leave to cool and poor into the bottom of the bread machine pan. Add the milk and eggs as well.
2. Sift the flour, cocoa powder and cinnamon together and in the bread pan ensuring it covers all the water.
3. Put the salt, sugar and butter each in a different corner of the pan and add the yeast in a little well in the middle.
4. Turn on the bread machine and put it on the kneading cycle.
5. When the cycle has finished remove the dough from the machine and knock it back. Knead the chocolate and pine nuts into the dough.
6. Shape the dough into a ball and put it in greased cake tin or soufflé dish. Cover it with cling film and leave it for 45 to 60 minutes to rise.
7. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius or 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Cut an X on the top of your bread and leave it in the oven for 10 minutes.
8. Reduce the heat to 180 degrees Celsius or 350 degrees Fahrenheit and leave the bread in for another 30 minutes.



The bread was a bit dry so I figured I might not have used enough butter, or perhaps I didn’t let it rise long enough. Still, it was a proper chocolate bread and it was gone within a few days. I’m not sure who ate it, but it wasn’t me! It goes very well with home-made butter. I didn’t have any pictures of that, but I should make sure to make a post about butter. It’s easier than you think. It’s even easier than putting a bread in the breadmachine!