Step-by-step: How to make a chocolate babka spiral

Chocolate babka bread

Follow our step-by-step instructions to make this decadent bread. Prefer buns to large leaves? Try our baby babka version of this recipe.

Step 1

Divide dough into two portions. Keep one portion wrapped in plastic while working with the other one.

Step 2

Roll first portion on a floured surface into an 8 × 12-in. rectangle, with the long side toward you.

Step 3

Spread half of chocolate mixture over dough, to the edges.

Step 4

Tightly roll dough in jelly-roll fashion, rolling from the long edge closest to you.

Step 5

Continue, rolling all the way up.

Step 6

Fold the roll in half so the two ends meet.

Step 7

With one hand, hold both ends together, and with the other hand, hold the rounded end. Twist the ends in opposite directions once.

Step 8

Twist one more time to make a spiral pattern.

Step 9

Curl the babka so the two ends meet.

Step 10

Tuck the cut ends under the rounded end.

Step 11

Set on prepared sheet. Repeat with other portion of dough. Continue recipe per instructions.

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