Eggless Hersheys Chocolate Star Bread
It’s mid January and I still can’t get over this gorgeous Eggless Star Bread I made for Christmas. I absolutely love that it’s all Eggless and that means, it feels so light on the tummy after gobbling up a slice!
With the winters still pitching in, A warm slice of Chocolaty Bread can be real comforting. Who wants an occasion anyways to bake up this gorgeous Star? My favourite part is that I can just roll up this dough and wrap in some chocolate spread and put it in a loaf pan and bake my Babka too! Its just the perfect recipe if you want to make a fancy impression on your friends and guests or just skip the fancy altogether and take the easy Babka route for the home comfort!
Before we dive into the recipe, let me tell you this, you can totally do with a chocolate butter melt for the filling or can go completely the other way with jams and preserves as filling! The options are endless!!
I made this recipe with Ira around, and God help me for the chocolate licks and bottle runs!
Now, lets just jump into this recipe!
Eggless Hersheys Star Bread
Ingredients:
3 1/2 cup All Purpose Flour
1/4 tsp Salt
1/3 cup castor sugar
2 tsp instant dry yeast
200ml water
1/2 cup unsalted butter
150g Hersheys chocolate spread
Method:
Mix in the All purpose flour and salt in a mixing bowl
Add in the sugar and yeast and give it all a good mix
Add in the water little by little and combine to form a semi dry dough
Add the butter and form a sticky dough
Dust the counter top and knead the dough for about 10 min to make it non sticky and smooth
Fold in several times and form a smooth dough ball and let it rest in a greased bowl (airtight) in a warm place until it doubles in size
Transfer the dough on the counter and roll it into a thick disk and cut out 4 equal portions and smoothen and fold in to make 4 dough balls of equal sizes
Take 1 portion and roll into a disk 1/4” thickness
Transfer it carefully to a flat pan lined with parchment paper
Spread out a small scoop of Hersheys chocolate spread on the dough evenly
Roll out the next dough ball in similar fashion and place it over the chocolate spread dough
Repeat for all the dough balls
Take a cookie cutter or a small bowl of 2” diameter and make a marking on the centre of the bread dough disc
Make 16 equal slits on the outer dough disc (leaving the marked inner circle)
Take 2 slit portions and twist it twice and pinch it together to make one spike of the star
Repeat with all the other dough slits
You’ll have a beautiful looking star
Once you like the shape, brush the star with milk lightly
Bake the bread in a pre heated oven at 200 degrees C for about 15-18min
While it is still warm, brush over with melted butter
I dust it with icing sugar for that extra love!
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