Ingredients to make Chocolate Braid with Nocilla:
- 430 grams of pastry flour
- 7 grams of dry baker’s yeast
- 20 grams of sugar
- 50 grams of butter
- ½ teaspoon of Salt
- 1 piece of Egg
- 180 milliliters of Milk (¾ cup)
- 1 bottle of Nocilla
How to make Chocolate Braid with Nocilla:
- We will make our chocolate braid with bread, unlike the recipes that use puff pastry. So, to make the bread dough, start by heating the milk together with the diced butter, sugar and salt.
- Go stirring until the butter is melted without it coming to a boil. Remove from the heat, add the egg and beat everything well.
- Then, in the bowl of the robot with the dough hook mounted, put the flour with the dry yeast. Add the liquid ingredients and beat for 5 minutes until you get smooth, elastic dough.
- Pass the dough to the work table previously dusted with flour. Knead for a few minutes and form a ball, which we will put in a greased bowl with a little oil and cover with a kitchen towel. We will let it rest in a warm place until it doubles its volume.
- Trick: If we preheat the oven to 50 degrees, turn it off and put the bowl with the dough inside, it will rise better
- After the resting time, we preheat the oven to 180º C and prepare the tray where we will cook the chocolate bread. Then, cover the entire surface of a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- On a floured surface, roll out the dough with a rolling pin and form a rectangle the size of your baking tray, cover with a thin layer of Nocilla.
- La Nocilla is a chocolate paste similar to Novella. If you can’t get Nocilla, you can substitute it for any other brand or make it at home
- To make the braided bread, you must start rolling the dough on itself at one end. When you have the roll of dough, divide it in two lengthwise, without reaching the upper end.
- Carefully braid the two halves, first passing the right side over the left and so on. When you get to the end of the braid, tuck the seam in so it doesn’t come undone at the end.
- Transfer our chocolate braid to the baking tray and let it rest for about 30 minutes. After this time the dough will have grown a little more, we paint it with beaten egg and we put it in the oven for about 20 minutes, or until clicking with a skewer it comes out clean of dough.
- With this chocolate braid with Nocilla you will surprise everyone. As you can see, it is much easier to prepare than it seems and you can present it as a dessert or at snack or tea time.
