#coffee bread

One of my best recipes, chocolate chip coffee bread.

600g flour, strong white

60g chocolate chips, 70% cocoa

3g black pepper, cracked

420ml coffee, consisting of:

240ml double cream (50% fat)

180ml black coffee, ground and filtered

Which constitutes:

120mg fat

300ml liquid

Don’t mind me. The following photo is gonna disgust you. .. but I have to show it bcos not everything in life works out the way you plan it to be.

I made coffee bread for the 1st time in my life & this is what it looked like.

I’ve been working OT quite often lately, & one evening last week, I was like, “I’m gonna make coffee bread”. So I literally Googled & used the 1st recipe on the search result list haha

& like you know, I don’t like baking, I don’t have the talent for it, & most importantly, I really don’t like following recipes all that much =/ even knowing that baking is an art of precision, I decided to deviate from the recipe, & just followed the basics. I don’t recall what amounts of what I used but somehow, despite the failed appearance, the texture & flavour was quite good!

Here’s the cross-section of the circular one (the oval one was the same bcos I baked them at the same time in my toaster oven). The crust was slightly crispy.. . it had a cookie-texture to it. The inside was soft; it wasn’t too dense, nor dry, nor felt-underbaked. The texture turned out well; I thought it was all over based on the appearance lol.

The flavour was veeeeery coffee-y. I decreased the amount of sugar & up’d the amount of instant coffee. I also added dark chocolate, which isn’t very sweet. .. so yeah, it was kinda bitter, but had a minute sweetness. Ppl will likely find it gross but I personally liked it!

I experimented with diff ways of eating it after eating it regularly as is. I tried putting a small piece of chocolate on top, & then microwaving it so that the chocolate would melt into a sauce, coating the top of the bread. That was not bad. I tried drizzling some maple syrup. That was ok too, but I’m not huge on maple syrup. I recently purchased honey powder; so I melted the honey powder in a small amount of water (to get like a light honey sauce going), poured that on top of a slice of bread sideways, & then heating that up in the microwave. This was my fav out of the 3. The bread soaked up some of the honey sauce; thereby making the texture of the bread softer & more cake-like.

@changkyunrk​

another hour passes on the clock that hangs on the wall of the convenience store where yugyeom works, and he lets out a sigh. he’s alone tonight, which is pretty unusual considering he is supposed to have his coworker here working the graveyard shift with him. it’s quite a strange feeling, not seeing changkyun here tonight. yugyeom had gotten so used to the other boy’s company that he isn’t quite sure what to do now that he wasn’t present. no one had informed him that he’d called in sick or anything of the like, but simply being late (especially this late) didn’t seem to be in the other’s work ethic. 

the more yugyeom thought about it, the more worried he got. it didn’t feel right not having changkyun’s music playing softly through the store’s speakers, and it was incredibly lonely here when most of the city was asleep, with no one to talk to. yugyeom sighs and stares at the door somewhat wistfully, as if waiting for it to open any moment now with its telltale chime.