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Chocolate Sourdough Bread with Chocolate Chips
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Chocolate Sourdough Bread with Chocolate Chips

Learn how to make Dark Chocolate Sourdough Bread. Use the standard sourdough bread recipe that you already know and turn it into something completely different without doing anything difficult or complicated. This Sourdough is not sour, it is pleasantly sweet without being sugary. It has a soft chewy crumb with a balanced chocolate flavor; and bursts of chocolate-y goodness from the chocolate chips.

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