I’m not a patient person.
I almost never try recipes that require baking over 1 hour. (bye bye meringues)
It doesn’t matter how long it takes me to make them, but baking should now last long, just enough time to allow me to clean the kitchen so I can enjoy the goodies without interruption.
That’s one of the reasons I hardly ever make quick breads. Most of the time I make muffins. Or I’d rather make scones.
But what’s a girl to do when her family make faces when asked what kind of muffins they’d like for breakfast?
Make a quick bread using the purple polka dots paper baking pans I bought a while back from Home Goods.
If you’re a patience person you can bake this chocolate dulce de leche bread in a 9X5 baking pan making just one loaf instead of two or opt for mini loaf pans (5X3)
It’s totally your decision, either way I highly advice you to give this bread a chance.
If you still debate the size of the pan let me speed things a little bit by talking about the bread itself.
First, it’s a chocolate bread. Dark unsweetened cocoa is used to give the bread a rich chocolate flavor. Eggs and buttermilk enhance the batter giving the bread a nice soft crumb and swirls of dulce de leche are added just before baking it.
When you take it out of the oven you’ll see the bubbly dulce de leche oozing out.
If you got over the long baking time, waiting for the bread to cool just a little bit is probably the hardest part.
I cut it while it was still warm. I could not wait any longer. I had to take a bite. Mmmm
Why didn’t I bake it sooner?
Chocolate dulce de leche bread - soft, rich chocolate bread with dulce de leche swirls
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup (113 grams) room temperature butter
- 3/4 cup (150 grams) sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup (240 ml) buttermilk
- 2 cups (240 grams) all purpose flour
- 2 tsp (8 grams) baking powder
- 1/3 cup (28 grams) cocoa powder
- 1/3 - 1/2 cup dulce de leche
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 350F.
- In a mixing bowl cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs, one at a time scraping the sides of the bowl down after each addition. Add the vanilla extract.
- In a separate bowl sift together the flour, baking powder and cocoa.
- Add the buttermilk and flour mixture alternately in three additions.
- Pour the batter into the baking pan(s), scoop the dulce de leche on top and with a butter knife mix it into the chocolate bread batter.
- Bake until a wooden skewer comes out clean. If using 7X2.5 baking pans like I did bake for about 50 minutes.
- Leave to cool slightly before slicing. Enjoy.
If you like this chocolate dulce de leche bread recipe, you might also like
Chocolate dulce de leche cupcakes
Dulce de Leche Banana Bread at Fat Girl trapped in a Skinny Body
Dulce de Leche Swirled Pound Cake at Sugarhero
Dulce de leche Brownies at David Lebovitz
Sending love your way,
Roxana
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It’s so unfair for me to look at this right now. I just want to reach through my computer screen and grab a slice, you know which one. The one you keep torturing me with. The one with the swirl of dulce de leche showing so clearly I can almost taste it. Pinning and this IS on my baking list. If I can bear to part with them, these would make wonderful gifts.
Seriously, Holy Cats!!!!! That looks like delicious fudgie happiness!!! My husband would adore this:-) Gorgeous, Hugs, Terra
DIVINE!!!
Mandy
such inviting clicks and the recipe looks a keeper; bookmarking it !
You have outdone yourself with this bread, Roxana!! I’m going to be thinking of chocolate and dulce de leche all day
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Wish I had this with my coffee! I luv dulce de leche, esp. with chocolate
Have a great day, Roxana!
Wow. I need to bake some bread now myself!
Seriously in love with this one!! I am going to have to add this to the list of breads I am baking for the neighbors for Christmas!
This looks awesome! How did I not think of making a chocolate version of dulce de leche bread?! Love it.
No fair! Now I want this and it’s not here!
Thanks Roxana…now I’ll be dreaming about this bread. Holy yummy goodness. It looks scrumptious.
I have to agree with Renee…will be dreaming of that bread for SURE!!!! Wow, Roxy that is one amazing amazing looking sweet bread…and I don’t care how long we need to bake it
Have a lovely evening!!!!!
OHH~~ I spotted this on FB and have been thinking about it all day~~ this is happening SOON!! I adore dulce de leche!
This is a gorgeous loaf of bread! The combo of chocolate and dulce de leche is wonderful…I need to make it!!
Oh my deliciousness!!That is one loaf of bread that I could eat up all by myself.
This chocolate bread looks divine! Going to add it to my must try list!!
I love, love, love chocolate bread and you added dulce de leche to it? Wow! I actually saw the post on my Facebook feed while I was on vacation and I couldn’t stop looking at it. Now with a bigger computer, I’m drooling. That is all.
This is such a beautiful loaf of chocolate bread, I just love all the creative baking recipes you come up with Roxana using chocolate and in this case dulce de leche, I’m craving one of those slices in the pictures;-)
My goodness, how could I live without this… I’d love to have this every morning or tea time. Gotta save this one for sure!!!! It looks moist and delicious. And looks manageable baking for me too!
Thanks for the recipe Roxana!
Those swirls are just killing me! I think I need to make an emergency grocery run and try this out ASAP!
Oh goodness this is perfection, dark chocolate and dulce de leche are two of my favorite things.
You had me at Dulce de leche!!! Now you put it into a chocolate bread – this is simply amazing. Perfection!!!!
I am not patient either. And I absolutely adore this bread!
Yes and yes!This is my weakness-chocolate and luscious dulce de leche-divine!
This bread looks fantastic, and so do your photos!
Oh my this is so right up my alley, I love chocolate and caramel together and especially in a cake. Your such a awesome baker Roxana, I don’ t know how you do it all.
That chocolate bread with swirls of dulce is to die for. Yum!
Is the cooking time you listed for making one loaf in the 7×2.5 pan? Have you tried using a mini loaf baking pan? Curious to see if there is any difference in the cooking time?
Hi Toomy,
Yes, the time listed is for the 7X2.5 inch pan. If you’re using mini pans, you’ll have to reduce the baking time. I’ve never tried so I can’t tell you how long you actually have to bake it. Start with 25-30 minutes and check every few minutes until the bread is complexly baked.
Roxana
Well I can understand how you wouldn’t want to wait long for this bread! Dangerous!!
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