Chocolate Coconut Bread 1 Cup milk 3 Tablespoons water 1 Egg, lightly beaten 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla 4 teaspoons butter 3 Tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt 4 Cups bread flour 1 ¼ teaspoons yeast ½ Cup chocolate chips ½ Cup toasted coconut (more about this later)

This makes a two pound loaf. [...]]]> I love this bread for breakfast.  I toast it and put peanut butter on top.  Yum!

Chocolate Coconut Bread
1 Cup milk
3 Tablespoons water
1 Egg, lightly beaten
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
4 teaspoons butter
3 Tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
4 Cups bread flour
1 ¼ teaspoons yeast
½ Cup chocolate chips
½ Cup toasted coconut (more about this later)

This makes a two pound loaf. Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which ingredients to put in the bread machine first.  Make sure you check on the dough after five or ten  minutes of kneading.  Just pop the top of the bread machine and see how the dough is doing.  It should be a smooth, round ball.  If it’s too dry add liquid a tablespoon at a time until it looks OK.  If it looks too wet,  add flour a tablespoon at a time until it looks OK.  Most of the time though, the above amounts should be just right.

Different people will have different results with this recipe.  It all depends on how hot your bread machine gets.  The chips may just slightly melt, they may entirely melt, or you could get some sort of mixture.  I used mini chocolate chips for maximum melting.  Plus, mini chocolate chips are very cute.    Here’s how my bread turned out.

The bread is chocolate flavored with the occasional chocolate burst caused by an unmelted chip.  The coconut is very subtle.  The next time I make this recipe I’m going to double the coconut.

Toasting Coconut

This was the first time I toasted coconut.  I preheated the oven to 300 degrees and spread the coconut out in a baking dish.

I cooked it for 20 minutes and stirred it every five minutes.  Coconut can burn very quickly, so keep an eye on it.  Here’s how it looked after 20 minutes.