Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day
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I made this recipe standard version without the topping. I thought it might be sweet enough (and fattening) without the optional topping.
The Babka was really good. It is sweet, but not too sweet and the bread is very soft and slightly sweet, much like Panettone. I loved the combination of dark chocolate and cinnamon for the filling too. There was a good balance between the sweet bread and the bitterness from the dark chocolate chips.
I had one problem with the recipe. The recipe calls for 1 teaspoon or 7 grams of cinnamon. I always like to weigh my ingredients, so I added 1 teaspoon and it weighed only 1.1 grams. I wasn't sure whether I should use 7 grams or 1 teaspoon. I decided to use only 1 teaspoon rather than potentially using 7 times to much cinnamon. It turned out that I didn't really taste the cinnamon in the filling, so perhaps next time I will use a bit more.
Overall a very good recipe and would make this again. My feeling that the topping was not needed was confirmed when tasting it.
Check out the pictures I posted.
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