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Chocolate Bread

By Paula Deen

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Difficulty: Easy

Prep time: 50 minutes

Cook time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Servings: 2 loaves

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Ingredients

  • 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 cups milk
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups semisweet chocolate morsels
  • 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
  • 1/2 cup softened butter
  • 2 tablespoons hot fudge topping

Directions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Butter and flour (2) 9 by 5-inch loaf pans.

In a large bowl combine the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, and salt. Beat in the milk, oil, eggs, and vanilla at medium-low speed with an electric mixer until combined. Beat in the chocolate morsels and pecans. Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared pans. Bake until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, about 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes. Shield the bread with aluminum foil to prevent excess browning. Let cool in the pans for 10 minutes. Remove the bread from the pans and cool completely on a wire rack. Serve with rich Chocolate Butter, if desired.

Chocolate Butter:

In a small bowl, beat the butter and fudge topping at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Cover, and refrigerate. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes before serving.

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Cindy

March 15, 2017
made this bread and all chocolate chips sunk to the bottom..dont know why--could it be the milk? I used 2% maybe should have used whole but batter was very runny..

joshua tessnair

February 16, 2012
Made some today. Absolutly LOVE IT.

Richard Cornelis

August 05, 2011
Paula, My wife and I both really enjoy your down home cooking and your southern humor that goes along with it. We have tried a lot of you recipies and found them very tasteful and easy to follow. Keep up the good work and thank you.

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