Chocolate Chai Mini Loaves
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Yields:
-
3 mini loaves
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
-
Bread
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 2 (1 ounce) bittersweet chocolate pieces or (1 ounce) semisweet baking chocolate
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄2 cup sour cream
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 3 tablespoons chai tea mix (instant latte type, or use the spice blend listed at the end of this recipe)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
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Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon chai tea mix (instant latte type, or use the spice blend listed at the end of this recipe)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 -5 teaspoons milk
directions
- Heat oven to 350°F
- Grease bottoms only of 3 (5 1/2x3-inch) mini loaf pans; set aside.
- Combine water and baking chocolate in 1-quart saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until chocolate is melted.
- Remove from heat; cool to room temperature.
- Combine brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, eggs and 1 teaspoon vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium speed until creamy.
- Add chocolate mixture and sour cream. Continue beating until well mixed.
- Reduce speed to low; add all remaining bread ingredients. Beat until mixture is smooth.
- Spoon batter into prepared loaf pans. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.
- Cool 10 minutes. Remove from pans. Cool completely.
- Combine all glaze ingredients except milk in small bowl. Beat at medium speed, adding enough milk for desired spreading consistency. Glaze cooled bread.
- * You may substitute this spice blend for the chai tea latte mix. Combine 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon, 1 teaspoon ground ginger and 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves in a small bowl. Use 2 1/4 teaspoons in the bread and 1 teaspoon in the glaze.
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Vino Girl
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My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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