WITH YOUR WINE

Chocolate yeast bread

I used to have a terrific recipe for chocolate bread, which has long since vanished. It wasn’t a cake or a short bread, but a real bread – yeasty and toastable and pretty amazing. The recipe here is a variation of one published by the Godiva chocolate people, which has been floating around for years. I’d upgrade the chocolate chips with bestquality baking chocolate and substitute

1 cup warm coffee for the water. Serve this as holiday treat with your favorite sparkling wine (or, toasted with peanut butter for your kids).

Serves four, about 15 minutes

1 pkg active dry yeast

4 1/2 c bread flour

1/3 c unsweetened cocoa

2 Tbsp sugar

1 tsp salt