How To Make Babka | Chocolate & Walnut Brioche | A Home Cooking Journey Production

How to make the best Babka with chocolate and walnuts

A Polish-Jewish Sweet Brioche with a delicious Chocolate Walnut Filling. It's perfect enjoyed with a glass of milk or a coating of natural yogurt. If you try this recipe, please write a comment to me.

Babka (makes 1 large loaf)

Ingredients:
- 185ml warm milk
- 7g packet instant dry yeast
- 1 egg + 1 egg yolk
- 75g sugar
- 400 - 450g plain flour
- zest of 1 orange +/or lemon
- 110g soft butter
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- 85g mix of dark and milk chocolate
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 75g butter
- 35g sugar
- 120g chopped walnuts
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- 50ml water
- 2 tbsp sugar
- juice of 1/2 lemon

Method:

For the dough: Mix warm milk, some of the sugar and the yeast in a jug. Leave for 10mins. Add rest of the sugar, egg and egg yolks, zest of orange and / or lemon. Set aside.

In a large bowl, add the flour. Note that you may not need all of it! Stir in the liquid in 3 additions. Mix to a dough and start kneading for 15 - 20 mins. Add the softened butter, a cube at a time and continue kneading for a couple more minutes. Cover and leave to proof about 1 hour (in a warm place if possible).

Make filling: Melt butter, sugar, cocoa and chocolate on low heat till smooth.

Roll out dough on floured surface. Spread all the chocolate filling. Level. Drizzle all the finely chopped walnuts. Roll. Seal edges. Cut the log in half. Swirl and shape as Babka or as shown in video, basically braid in 2. Place in a long, lined loaf tin. Let proof another 30 mins. Bake in preheated oven at 170°C for 40 - 50 mins. Check on it earlier or it might burn slightly.

For the syrup: Mix hot water, sugar and lemon juice, then spoon on top of the babka.

As mentioned in the introduction, it's best served with a glass of milk or yogurt.



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