<p>Slight digression…
does anyone know where to get really good raisin pumpernickel bread?? I loved that when I was up north-- can’t find it down here isn the south. I have found a yummy fruit/nut bread, but not quite the same as raisin pumpernickel.</p>
<p>After all this chatter about chocolate bread - I decided to experiment this weekend - drug out the bread machine - thru in my favorite pizza dough recipe makings - added Ghirardelli sweet ground chocolate and cocoa to the mix - rolled it out - actually more deep dish style - thick crust - did a quick bake and then added some mixed fruits and a drizzle of honey - and ended up with a fantastic desert - lol - had it for breakfast yesterday too - ok - I am admittedly a chocoholic ;)</p>
<p>I don’t get a recipe from skrinkrap’s link. I just get a place to order the bread. What am I missing?</p>
<p>bethievt-
Same here. I don’t think there is a recipe there. But there is the recipe for chocolate cherry quickbread on the Godiva’s site mentioned in the article mercymom posted. <a href=“Dessert Recipes | Cakes, Fondue, Mousse, and More | GODIVA”>Dessert Recipes | Cakes, Fondue, Mousse, and More | GODIVA;
<p>I’ll have to try this!</p>
<p>A bakery near us makes a chocolate quick bread, with chocolate chips in. YUM!</p>
<p>Quickbread is good, but it’s not going to have the same (?feathery) texture as a yeast bread. Seems that would be more like cake, no?</p>
<p>BTW, there was no recipe; just a link to purchase. Yeast bread is a little too ambitious for me these days.</p>
<p>I heartily second shrinkrap’s recommendation of Zingerman’s Chocolate Cherry bread. Or any bread from Zingerman’s. Or anything from Zingerman’s :)</p>
<p>After reading this thread, I’m getting out the Nutella…</p>
<p>jym626 - I would be more than happy to do that for you if I am meeting you all that Saturday, especially if the meeting is in the city. If it’s in Westchester, it may be hard for me to hit Soho first…lol. I wouldn’t want to get the bread too far in advance as I’m sure you’d want to try it while it was fresh to get the full effect…lol. As far as Zabar’s goes, I haven’t been there since I was in high school - so I’m not sure how their pastries are.</p>
<p>By the way, you are all making me very hungry! I have to get off of this thread.</p>
<p>Also jym, I do know a place that makes amazing pumpernickel raisin bread - unfortunately, I recently found out that they are infested with roaches! So, I’m sorry, but I just can’t shop there knowing that - especially since I heard they aren’t taking care of the problem. It’s really a shame, because it’s one of the few really good bakeries in our area.</p>
<p>Reporting in: my chocolate bread was a complete success, and that recipe is a keeper. Thanks!</p>
<p>ebeeeee:
When I married and settled in the dryland wheat country of Eastern Washington thirty years ago, one of the ladies in our little town gave me an ebleskiver iron and recipe (am I spelling it correctly? I think I’ve also seen aebleskiver and ableskiver). Some of the original homesteaders of the area were Danish immigrants, so I guess that’s the source, although I wouldn’t say that the food was well known there. My kids have always loved them, and in the last few years that was what my daughter always made for her friends for sleepover breakfast…ebleskivers with Nutella, or German plum sauce, or warm applesauce, and sometimes we still do the chocolate gravy… mmmmmm! </p>
<p>This past Christmas Eve we had our minister and some other friends over for our traditional angel food cake. The talk turned to other traditional Christmas foods, and I mentioned that we would be having ebleskivers for Christmas breakfast…but the minister thought I said “evil schemers,” so now that’s what we call them.</p>
<p>LImom-
Eewwww roaches. Too much information!!! Yuk ptooey.
We’ll figure out the Balthazars thing when we figure out a location fo rthe gathering!</p>
<p>And Yum!! Nutella!! Used to eat it with a spoon right out of the jar. That was about 10 lbs ago!! The pounds are gone, and so is the nutella :(</p>
<p>Sorry about that jym - I know, roaches are quite disgusting. Congrats on losing that weight and keeping it off - not an easy thing to do. </p>
<p>I’ve never tried Nutella because it just looks like something that I would love, and it’s just too easy to get. The chocolate bread would be a special treat because I would have to travel a little to get it…lol.</p>
<p>Somewhere in the elementary/middle school years, I wanted my kids to try more kinds of breads. Summertime in the Catskills, the kosher bakeries put out this fabulous thing called “Chocolate Bread.” It’s an eggy white bread with a thread of Hershey’s syrup running through it. I didn’t buy it, but kept the term in my mind.</p>
<p>The next week, I put out a great loaf of healthy, dark pumpernickle rye on the table and said, “Here, try this! It’s Chocolate Bread.”</p>
<p>I must have lost my mind to think I could fool anyone that old. After age 2, they know “chocolate” from “rye.” They not only spat it out, but bring it up to me 10 years later as one of my worst moments as a mother. In our house, “chocolate bread” is the metaphor for anything hyped or falsely presented to others.</p>
<p>ROTFLMAO today, just thinking about it! :)</p>
<p>Aaaahaaaa!</p>
<p>Thanks ReneeV for the report back on the recipe. We will definitely be baking it here. </p>
<p>That is so sad about the owner of Zabar’s dying. H and I made a special visit to Zabar’s during our September NYC trip. The stuff we bought there in September was delicious fwiw. Now I notice Zabar’s bags in movies or tv shows. Seinfeld, obviously, also Friends, and that movie where Meryl Streep is the psychiatrist. There was Zabar’s stuff in her kitchen.</p>
<p>Paying3- thanks, made me laugh.
but-
WHAT were you thinking? Kids love to collect ‘bad moments of mom’s parenting’.</p>
<p>Great story, p3t!
And Limom-
Thanks for the compliment, but I left out a little detail-- I’d actually lost 20 # at the time. Almost 1/2 have slowly found their way back… So, no Nutella for meeeeeee. I love that stuff!!! It is entirely too good!</p>
<p>p3t,
I don’t think I’ve ever had the Catskills chocolate bread, but I do miss the bakeries along with the grand resort hotels.</p>
<p>ReneeV,
evil schemers…I love it. We live in a Danish community…here they are served with raspberry jam and powdered sugar. I’ve always seen it spelled abeleskiver or abelskiver…any I used to just call them dough balls but I like evil schemers better.</p>
<p>The most traditional little old Danish lady I knew made “evil schemers” with slices of cooked apple placed on the dough ball batter before flipping, and I think the Danish word for apple is similar to the beginning of the word…aebel, abel, ebel, something like that.</p>
<p>Speaking of Nutella, it’s the one food my D would never want to give up. She told us a funny story about pulling out her Nutella at school, and one of her uninitiated new friends asked what it was. A more “experienced” girl responded dramatically: “Nutella…is sex in a jar!”</p>
<p>On Zabar’s, my mom has a favorite story of going there and asking the counter-man about a salami hanging from the ceiling for sale, “How long will it last?”</p>
<p>He replied, “It’ll last forever if you don’t eat it.” </p>
<p>I heard that Danny Kaye used to go behind their counter some mornings, and chop food, serve customers, sing. I’d have loved to have seen that!</p>