Lazy Keto Chocolate bread recipe | Kenwood BM450 bread maker

Bread can be hard to come by while we are on Movement Control Order, so we started using our bread machine more. It is also a simple activity for my stay-at-home boys!

BM250 Program 1 - Basic Bread

Method

Below is the recipe using normal bread flour taken from Kenwood website.

Put the egg/eggs into the measuring cup or a jug and add sufficient water to give:
1kg Loaf 300ml
750g Loaf 225ml
500g Loaf 185ml

Add the chocolate when the machine makes an audible sound after approcimately 20 minutes during the kneading cycle.

*If you don't have chocolate at home, this is how you can make it using cocoa powder-
77.5g cocoa powder + 3.5tbsp oil/butter= 100g unsweetened chocolate （I placed  a total of 44g cocoa powder + 2.5 tbsp oil right at the beginning)

Halfway kneading in the bread machine.

To make 100g of semi sweetened chocolate, add 5 1/4 tsp sugar.

To make 100g of sweetened chocolate, add 14tsp sugar.

I don't like buying too much ingredients for the pantry, so I thought this is a good hack-- and also I can control the amount of sugar going into the recipe. Instead, I tend to throw in a handful of raisins as it's more nutritious and my children's favorite!

I also started using bread improver to enhance the texture and appearance of my bread. 2tsp will do for a 500g loaf. It's not an absolute necessity but I did notice the bread has changed into a denser texture. Be sure you read through the ingredients in your bread improver and get those of good quality. Read more about bread improver in this article.

We are trying to go low carb and low GI so for 500g loaf,I used 60g coconut flour  with 240g high protein flour, 50g whole wheat flour (1:1 ratio to high protein flour), 2 eggs and add water to 240ml total amount of fluid. Turn to light crust. Sugar wise, it's still needed  as stated in the table to feed the yeast so the dough can rise. I put 2 tbsp of sugar with 2 tsp of yeast.

*Tips*

If you are adding coconut flour to a gluten-free flour blend or substituting it for flour in a regular recipe,  substitute coconut flour for up to 20% of that blend. The liquid and/or fat combination needs to be increased by about 20% (fat preserves the long term moisture of the final baked product).

Coconut flour typically call for a lot of eggs. Every 1/4 cup (30.8g) coconut flour typically requires one egg for both moisture and structure. Please use eggs at room temperature for the best result. It's normal for bread using coconut flour not to rise much and to appear denser.

This chocolate bread goes very well with toasted banana slices and honey.

When storing coconut flour, it’s best to keep it airtight and frozen since coconut flour absorbs moisture.

Let's main campak campak and enjoy a fresh loaf of bread! Yummy with less carbohydrates.