<p>It’s cold and rainy and I found this on NPR.org. If I had the ingredients I would make it right now and eat it tonight. Just reading the article is a sensual experience. For those of you in NYC, you can apparently buy this at Balthazar’s.[NPR:</a> Say It with Chocolate Bread](<a href=“http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18183909]NPR:”>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18183909)</p>
<p>Yeah, there’s a place in St. Paul that sells it – it’s called babka, I think. Absolutely delicious – you could get lost in it.</p>
<p>I accidently made chocolate bread years ago when I first got my bread machine - I added some bits at the wrong time - and it came out just AWESOME - I could not believe my mistake made such a wonderful treat - yummmmm - I still make for special occasions.</p>
<p>White chocolate also works incredibly well.</p>
<p>I had chocolate croissants at a restaurant once, served with chocolate butter. They were amazing!</p>
<p>I make chocolate zucchini bread, my kids call it chocolate bread (1 is 16 and still hasn’t realized that it has zucchini in it, actually 3 c. of it)</p>
<p>Chocolate babka reminds me of a Seinfeld episode*… but then everything reminds me of a Seinfeld episode.</p>
<p>*The one where George has the really big jacket, they get stuck in a liquor store. Jerry eats the Black & White cookie and throws up for the first time in years, and theres a hair on the cinnamon Babka…)</p>
<p>Yummmmmm…I am going to try the chocolate bread recipe tomorrow!</p>
<p>One of our favorite decadent weekend breakfasts is chocolate gravy and biscuits…basically a thin warm chocolate pudding, poured over sweet biscuits or sometimes on ebleskivers.</p>
<p>ReneeV, abelskivers are a specialty around here. I call them dough balls. Where are you from that you have actually heard of them?</p>
<p>I think this is a little different from the babka, at least the picture in the article makes it look more chocolate all through the bread, as opposed to a sort of chocolate swirl like the babka.</p>
<p>You can get the Seinfeld black and white cookies as well as the cinnamon babka and the chocolate babka at Zabar’s in NYC. You can also order them online from Zabar’s website and have them sent. Zabar’s babkas are wonderful!</p>
<p>Trader Joe’s has chocolate croissants (they are actually pains au chocolat) in the frozen section. Actually quite passable…</p>
<p>bullet- in good conscience, I have to ask for the zucchini chocolate bread recipe. I’m planning to make the NPR version this week, and should give equal time to something that sounds like health food…</p>
<p>As soon as I’m over the flu, I’ll have to buy a chocolate babka, although the recipes on this thread sound wonderful.</p>
<p>Here’s Zabrar’s Babka</p>
<p>[Zabar’s</a> Homestyle Babka (Kosher)](<a href=“Zabar's Homestyle Babka (Kosher)”>Zabar's Homestyle Babka (Kosher))</p>
<p>and Black & White Cookies</p>
<p>[Zabar’s</a> Black and White Cookies (Kosher)](<a href=“Zabar's Black and White Cookies (Kosher)”>Zabar's Black and White Cookies (Kosher))</p>
<p>Man did I love going there with my mom when I lived in New York.</p>
<p>Black and whites!! YUMM!!!</p>
<p>Now, for as much as a chocoholic as I am, I never could get into chocolate bread (babka, croissants, etc). Don’t know why. I liken it to loving fresh fruit, but not fruit flavored Ice cream, and don’t like fruit on ice cream either. Fruit sorbets are great, just not fruit flavored ice cream. Ditto for coffee ice cream. I’ll take my coffee hot.
Sorry for the digression. Back to chocolate…</p>
<p>Oh wow that article is good. I wonder if the recipe would work in a bread machine.</p>
<p>Zingerman’s Chocolate Cherry Bread…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.zingermans.com/Product.aspx?ProductID=B-CHO[/url]”>Cherry Chocolate Bread for sale. Buy online at Zingerman's Mail Order. Gourmet Gifts. Food Gifts.;
<p>"yes, you really can bake a chocolate-based bread…and yes, it’s as good (or better) than you can imagine </p>
<p>A chocolate lover’s fantasy come true—the best Belgian and French chocolate and dozens of dried Michigan cherries. A few minutes in the oven, the chocolate chunks begin melting, the aroma of cocoa fills the air. Spread it with just a hint of sweet butter, or set a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of a warm slice. You’ll be sitting in front of the most decadent dessert you’ve had in years.
“The Zingerman’s Bakehouse makes a chocolate cherry bread that can be used as the base of the best French toast you’ve ever had in your life.”
-Ed Levine, Ed Levine Eats Yahoo News December 2006"</p>
<p>Ok you guys-- I read shrinkraps recipe and the recipe in the original article. They both sound great! I will rethink my narrow-mindedness when it comes to all things chocolate, and try to bake a loaf. Will report back.</p>
<p>I can’t wait to try one of those recipes! Either that, or I will take a trip to Balthazar’s Bakery…lol. I’ve never baked bread before, so a trip to Soho sounds like it might work out better.</p>
<p>^^ LImomof2-
If you make it to the NY CC gathering when I am up there, can you buy me a loaf of that bread from Balthazars? I’ll pay you back!!
My mom used to get yummy pastries from Zabars. Is it still good? I heard the owner, Murray Klein, died in December. So sad…</p>