Chocolate and Hazelnut Babka!
Chocolate Babka... where to start with this one... My final product on my third attempt wasn't half bad, but it sure took some time and effort to get there! This bake was haunting me for weeks before I finally got it right! I was on a little bit of a patisserie/pastry baking mission, having just made cinnamon roles, cardamom buns and palmiers, so babka felt like the perfect challenge! Chocolate and Hazelnut Babka! Making the dough was the easy part, thanks to Veronica (if I haven't mentioned already Veronica is my stand mixer, named after Tony Stark's "Hulkbuster" satellite in Avengers: Age of Ultron! Geeky, I know). The dough is relatively simple, and is enriched with butter, eggs, and whole milk. Whilst the dough was proofing for the first time, I had time to prepare the filling. I have absolutely no idea what the mixture for the filling is called, if it even has a name at all, but it is also simple to prepare. I simply had to combine butter, caster sugar and ...