I bake this lighter and flavorful Black Bread Rolls made with unsweetened cocoa, honey and instant coffee
This Black Bread Rolls gets its color from cocoa and coffee. While it was a straight forward method but it takes a longer time to rise, mine took 2 hours to double in size. Anyway it worth to wait since this produces a remarkably pleasing roll.
Instead of having a regular loaf, I turned it into sliced rolls after brushing some butter over the dough then sprinkle sugar over the butter. It was rolled into a log then slice equally about an inch thick.
MY TIPS
Use your bread machine, it will be super easy. just put everything in the BM to prepare the dough.
Add more sugar since this recipe did not turn out very sweet, incorporate additional sugar for a bit extra sweetness
You can use other filling too, cream cheese, coconut, chopped nut are great alternatives.
BLACK BREAD ROLLS
Yield : 10 rolls
METHOD
Place flour, instant coffee, cocoa and instant yeast in a mixing bowl.
In another bowl, combine melted butter, banana, salt, honey and warm water.
Add in honey mixture to the dry ingredients.
Mix well and forms into soft dough. Knead on floured board until elastic and smooth.
Transfer into greased and covered bowl, let rise until double for 1.5 to 2 hours.
Punch dough down, roll out dough into rectangle about 10 x 12 in.
Brush 2-3 tablespoon of softened butter over the top of the dough. Sprinkle sugar over the butter on the prepared dough.
Starting with long edge, roll up dough, pinch seams to seal. Using sharp knife, equally cut into 1 in thick slice.
Place cut side up in a prepared pan, flattening them slightly. Let sit for 45 minutes, towards the end of rising time, heat the oven @ 190 C.
Bake for 15 minutes, transfer onto rack to cool.
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