It’s 11 p.m. My bread dough is getting its final rise. It is then going to be baked into the Leopard Print Bread. Whether it bakes or not is another story. Living at altitude teaches you to expect the unexpected. And “if” it bakes well, it will be another hour before it can be sliced to showcase the cool leopard print.
Now, I am usually a last minute baker but this time I was not. I had baked my bread a while ago – in fact as soon as Shireen announced her theme for Bread Bakers, I knew I wanted to make the leopard print bread. And I got to work and even showed her a sneak peek of the bread while chatting.
So why am I baking the bread a few hours before scheduled posting! I call it getting old. You see when I made the bread the first time, I took a quick snap shot of it on my phone. I decided to take photos to later in the day and wrapped the bread and went out to finish my chores. I was really pleased with the bread. It looked great and tasted amazing. After I got back, I simply offered the bread as a snack to my teen and her friends who were delighted with the bread.
It was only after they finished the last crumb that I remembered “later” part of my work I still needed to do! I took no good Photos!
So now you know why the bread is yet to be baked and if I don’t have any decent photos to post by the time this goes live you know who to blame – your’s truly!
I thought I should share this, just in case you all think a food blogger’s life is all glamour and glory! We have more than a fair share of downs than ups but the love of food keeps us going!
PS :- It’s now 2 am and I am finally ready to publish photos! And hope to catch a few winks before I go meet my friend Abbe who invited me to bake Hamantaschen with her!
That brings me to this month’s theme with the Bread Bakers. It is sinful, sexy, smooth, rich, dark handsome chocolate! In any form! Oh what a Deee*li*cious theme offered by Shireen at Ruchik Randhap. I was inspired to make the Leopard print bread from this post on Coco e Baunilha blog.
Let’s check what the bread bakers have come up with for this theme: –
Breads with Cocoa, Cacao or Carob in any form
- Chocolate & Cherry Swirl Breads from The Bread She Bakes
- Chocolate Orange Swirl Buns from Mayuri’s Jikoni
- Chocolate and Vanilla Brioche from Kidsandchic
- Chocolate Banana Quick Bread from Basic N Delicious
- Chocolate Buttermilk Quick Bread from Cindy’s Recipes and Writings
- Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls from A Day in the Life on the Farm
- Chocolate Filled Bundt Bread from Food Lust People Love
- Chocolate Hazelnut Banana Bread from Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
- Chocolate Monkey Bread from Sara’s Tasty Buds
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Quick Bread from Magnolia Days
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Cinnamon Rolls from From Gate to Plate
- Chocolate Yeast Bread from Cook’s Hideout
- Croatian Povitica – Chocolate Walnut Swirl Bread from Herbivore Cucina
- Dark Chocolate Cherry Pocket Bread from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
- Dark Chocolate Chip Hot Cross Buns from Baking in Pyjamas
- Double Chocolate Espresso Scones from Wholistic Woman
- Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread from Sizzling Tastebuds
- Egg Free 45 Minutes Chocolate Buns from Gayathri’s Cook Spot
- Eggless Chocolate Babka from I Camp in my Kitchen
- Eggless Chocolate Swirl Buns from Seduce Your Tastebuds
- Eggless Triple Chocolate Scones from Spill the Spices
- Four-Chocolate Sour Cream Quickbread from What Smells So Good?
- Pain Au Chocolat (Chocolate filled Croissants) from G’Gina’s Kitchenette
- Pane Al Cioccolato – Chocolate Bread from Ruchik Randhap
- Petits Pain au Chocolat – Mini Chocolate Croissant from Sneha’s Recipe
- Sourdough Cacao Sweet Bread from The Schizo Chef
- Sweet Russian Chocolate Braid from Hostess At Heart
- Two Chocolates Greek Yogurt Banana Bread from La cocina de Aisha
Breads with Cocoa, Cacao or Carob in any form
#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. Follow our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated each month on this home page.
We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.
If you are a food blogger and would like to join us, just send Stacy an email with your blog URL to foodlustpeoplelove@gmail.com.
Leopard Print Bread
Divide Each colored dough into 2 XL portions , 5 small portions to make 7 dough balls of each dough. Roll out the XL chocolate one first, then roll it back as a jelly roll. Next roll out the XL charcoal one into an oval. Place the chocolate dough jelly roll inside the charcoal one. Then roll out the XL plain dough and place the chocolate filled charcoal roll inside and roll. Repeat with the next batch of XL dough and then the small dough balls.
Leopard Print Bread #Bread Bakers
Ingredients
- 550 bread flour
- 50 gm sugar
- 1.5 tsp instant yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- 1.5 C warm milk 118 *F
- 2 tbs unsalted butter melted
- 1 Tbs cocoa powder
- 2 tsp milk
- 2 capsules activated charcoal powder
- 1 tsp milk
Instructions
- Put bread flour, sugar, salt and yeast together in a stand mixer attached with a dough hook. Stir to combine then add milk and knead until dough comes together. Add butter to the dough and knead until the dough is soft and shiny. About 6 minutes to 8 minutes.
- Weigh the dough. Put aside 500 gms of plain dough in a covered bowl . Let it proof for an hour or until double in size.
- Now divide the rest of the dough into two portions. You should roughly have about 250 gms of dough for each portion.
- To one portion add the cocoa powder with milk and knead until the cocoa mixes in completely and the dough looks chocolatey in color.
- Put in a covered bowl to proof.
- To the other portion that's left, add the charcoal and the milk and knead until evenly dark. Put in a covered bowl to proof.
- When all the dough has risen, gently knead each of the dough back and then divide each color as follows:-
- For chocolate dough, divide into 38gmx2 (large) and 25gmx5 (small) balls...adjust to the final weight of the dough..
- For bamboo charcoal dough, divide into 36gmx2 (large) and 23gmx5 (small) balls... adjust to the final weight of the dough...
- Plain dough :- divide into balls of 2 balls of 100gm and 5 balls of 55 gms
- Chocolate dough :- divide into 2 balls of 38gm and 5 balls of 25gm
- Charcoal Dough :- divide into 2 balls of 38 gms and 5 balls of 25 gms
- for all the doughs adjust weight of the dough balls as per final weight of the dough.
- Using a rolling pin, roll out the cocoa dough balls staring with the large ones. Roll into oval shape. Now roll it like you would a swiss roll. Place under a damp kitchen cloth to ensure it doesn't dry out. Repeat for all the chocolate dough balls.
- Next roll the bamboo charcoal dough balls starting with the large ones. Roll into an oval shape, large enough to cover the large cocoa dough roll. Place the coco roll inside the charcoal oval and close the charcoal dough, sealing the chocolate dough inside. Repeat for all the charcoal dough.
- Finally use the plain dough balls in the same way, sealing in the charcoal ones inside the plain dough. Now roll into a rope that is twice the size of the loaf pan. Cut into two and then repeat for rest of the dough.
- Grease your loaf pan and arrange the dough ropes into the pan. Cover and let it rise for about an hour. Then bake in a pre heated oven at 375* F for 30 minutes. ( 350* F at sea level for 35 minutes)
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Truly appreciate the way you made this wonderful leopard print bread. Everything is so nicely described. Breads are everyone’s favorite and we in India love flatbread like tandoori roti
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This bread is lovely. I’m pretty sure that my niece will love this bread. The photos looks pretty that I don’t want to eat them at all. Will surely give this a try. Thank you for sharing your recipe.
Hi, Is this recipe for 2 loafs?
Author
Just One!
omg how fun! I absolutely love this and I can think of a few more who would be obsessed. I will be making this for the next dinner party!
Awesome! This bread is absolutely stunning *_* The pics are everything.. 🙂
Harshita’s Kitchen
I am late in catching up with commenting but I remember seeing this on the social media post and immediately pinned it to try – this bread is gorgeous and must have tasted delicious – I am sure your daughter didn’t mind getting a second round of the bread 🙂
Simply stunning!!!
Something new, the cake design is very nice. will tempate everyone to have this.
This is SO cool!! Your photos look amazing, you’d never guess you were burning the midnight oil to get them done, lol. I’m going to have to try this one day!!
Just one word awesome. We eat food from our eyes then from our mouth….this recipe is perfect for the saying…..I really like your recipe….your leopard print bread has given me many ideas to make different different prints breads and cakes…thank you so much….
This is a beauty, Ansh!
This is such a good idea! It looks amazing!
Gosh! such a beautiful and stunning bread, bookmarking it.
Author
Thank you, Sneha. I hope you make it soon.
Love it Anshie. Sinful and seductive.
Author
he he Georgina, Thanks 🙂
Very beautiful Ansh. This month we are suppose to bake leopard print bread for the other baking group that I am a part of. My hubby couldn’t believe that one can bake a bread to looks so perfect like the leopard’s skin.
Author
Mayuri, Now you can show him your bread and say here is how ..LOL good luck with your bread.
That is a stunning bread Anshie. Love how leopardy it actually looks.
Activated carbon is a new ingredient for me that sounds quite intriguing.
Author
Thank you Pavani. charcoal is a new “culinary” discovery in the west, though a very commonly used culinary item in the east.
I love this Ansh! Don’t know how I missed this post, but so glad I stumbled across it. Beautiful.
Author
Thank you, Karen. I wish we lived close by so you could get some taste.
Ahh, this bread is making quite a round in many baking groups now!!! Looks absolutely stunning!!! I definitely want to try this one!!!
Author
It has been popular since Christmas time, Priya. You must make it. It is so fun.
I’m not sure if these are the bad photos or the good photos, but I’m totally impressed. Wow. Wow. Wow. What an amazing bread!! xoxo
P.S. I put that wrong. I’m not sure if these are what YOU consider good or bad. I consider these gorgeous!!!
Author
These were the better photos that I shot at 1 am . I only had some phone pics before that. Thank you, Karen, It means a lot coming from you.
i hope my attempt comes out anywhere near yours, but please tell me what the charcoal tastes like, and or could this be done with very dark coco and lighter coco for the chocolate….thanks for sharing this ever so cunning recipe
Author
Audrey, It doesn’t have a whole lot of flavor because you are adding a small quantity. You can totally do this with a milk chocolate and dark chocolate.
I just want to eat right now 😀 Fabulous, perfect and lovely!! I’m Loving it! Thanks for sharing!
Author
Thank you , Alisha. I wish I could send some through the web.
my kids would just gape at this bread ! great job and love the texture + colours that this bread has 🙂 amazing !!!
Author
Kids do love this bread. They get such a thrill from it. Thanks
You definitely take the blue ribbon for most beautiful and unusual bread this month. I just absolutely an in awe of this recipe.
Author
Thank you so much , Wendy! That made my day!
Glad you stayed up to bake your bread and take photos — it looks fabulous! Such a fun recipe — thanks so much.
Author
There were times when i wondered if I had lost my sanity. But then life of a blogger is never sane! Thanks John.
Really love it! Was it difficult to knead in the cocoa? I struggled when I did an owl bread so shy tips on that step would be great.
Author
It did take a bit of time. I mixed it in first and the dough stiffened up a bit. I covered it and let it relax for 10 minutes. Then it was a breeze. but you do have to knead it for quite a bit.
Oh boy! I can’t stop looking at your bread and exclaiming how beautiful it is and how talented you are Ansh!! Super winner of a bread, you have done complete justice to my theme!! Thanks a lot for sharing something absolutely new!
Author
Thank you so so so much Shireen. I wanted it to be a special bread!
Anshie , This bread was in my to do list for a long time. I am going to make this bread this month for another bread group.well made and step by step pictures were great……
Author
I hope you enjoy the process of baking this bread, Sharanya. It is really a lot of fun.
What a beautiful creative loaf of bread! I actually just accidentally deleted an entire posts worth of pictures. I’m going to be up late remaking an Easter dish too.
Author
It is such a bummer when that happens. All those hours of work just gone. Hope your post gets done in time, Julie.
This is great! I bet the kids gobble this up! “High fashion” I love it!
Author
HA HA.. Love that you called it “high fashion” Thanks Cindy !
This bread is so gorgeous 🙂 Pinning it. Shall make it soon!
Author
Glad you like it Smruti !
I would like to leave an erudite comment but I just can’t stop scrolling back up to look at your fabulous bread, Anshie! It’s absolute perfect in every way. I really had no idea what to expect when I saw your title. Well done, my friend. Very, very well done!
Author
Awww Stacy! You are just so sweet! Thank you for such warm appreciation. I love baking with you guys!
That bread is freaking AMAZING!!! It’s a total show stopper. Excellent recipe and thank you very much for sharing it. And for staying up to take those great photos.
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LOL Renee. Thank you so much for such warm appreciation. I love this group!