Chocolate Babka
Chocolate Babka might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 24. One serving contains 385 calories, 10g of protein, and 17g of fat. This recipe covers 14% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have egg yolks, cake yeast, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 4 hours and 45 minutes. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Easter.
Instructions
Combine the flour, sugar, yeast, and warm milk; then cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature 1 hour.
Make the dough: In bowl of a standing mixer fitted with a whisk, mix together the sugar, vanilla, salt, egg yolks and eggs until well blended. Fit the mixer with a dough hook, add the flour and sponge, and mix until combined; then drizzle in the butter.
Mix with the dough hook until incorporated.
Place it in a greased bowl, covered, and let it rest and rise until doubled in volume, about 1 1/2 hours.
Meanwhile, make the filling: Fit the mixer with the paddle attachment and mix together the almond paste, egg whites, and butter.
Add the chocolate and mix until combined.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Lightly flour a work surface, turn out the dough and punch it down to release the built up gases. Divide the dough in 1/
Cover 1 piece with a damp towel as you roll the other
piece into a rectangle 8 by 14 inches and 1/4-inch thick.
Let the dough rest while you roll the other out.
Spread each with 1/2 of the filling, then roll them up jellyroll style and pinch the seams to seal them. Flatten the dough slightly with a rolling pin, then twist the dough 6 to 8 times. Allow the dough to rest a few minutes. Make spirals with the dough and place them in 2 greased 8-inch cake pans. (Alternatively, lay the dough straight out in 2 greased tube pans.) Cover each pan with a damp cloth, and let rise in a warm place until almost doubled in volume, about 30 to 60 minutes.
Bake the cakes for 45 minutes; then let cool in the pan.