One for my Dad

My dad regularly tells me that he is the biggest fan of my blog.  Apparently he makes my little sister read it to him and my mum in a silly voice whenever she’s visiting.  Which is kind of nice.  I’m glad he hasn’t found my sweary, ranty twitter account yet though as I think that would probably make him much less proud of me.

Anyway – this one is for him, because the things that I baked are coming North with me later tonight .

Nutella Twist Bread

I saw a picture of this on the internet a while ago, in the guise of a gluten free recipe and although I really loved the idea behind it I wasn’t so sold on the actual recipe.  So I used the dough recipe from my cinnamon buns instead.

Once the dough had proved and been knocked back, I cut it in half and rolled each piece out flat before spreading it thinly with Nutella (other branded chocolate spreads are available)

I then rolled the dough and chocolate squares up into sausages, transferred them to a baking tray and popped them in the fridge for half an hour.

When the half hour was up, I took a sharp knife and starting about an inch away from one end cut down the middle of the dough sausage.  I then twisted these over so the freshly cut chocolate layers were facing up.

The two sides were twisted together carefully.  I squidged down the ends to hold them together and then pushed the uncooked loaf in from each end to make it shorter and fatter.

The dough then proved again, before being washed down with an egg wash and baked at 180 for 20 minutes.

Oh and I made a quick set of these as well, as The Very Tolerant Boyfriend is slightly intolerant to chocolate

 Half of each have gone off to work with The Very Tolerant Boyfriend and the other half are in the back of the car to come up to Shropshire with us later on.  Wonder if my dad is actually going to enjoy them or just make polite faces….