This Chocolate Cherry Bread tastes just like a buttery chocolate croissant. It is deliciously made with fresh cherries and dark chocolate.
So, if I could have anything in the world, my favorite breakfast item would be a chocolate croissant. I love the rich buttery layers and then the dark chocolate center.
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Now I realize why they are WORTH the money. Chocolate croissants take a ton of time and butter. Trust me, friends, it is worth buying these. But if you have the time, there isn’t anything like homemade, right?
This recipe came together on a whim, and cherries are in season. After the first bite, I thought, “This tastes similar to a chocolate croissant.” Then, my husband had a bite and said the same thing.
Now I can state the obvious and tell you this bread doesn’t have rich butter layers dough, but you get what I mean: the taste is similar. And you know what this recipe is so much easier and cheaper than buying a half dozen chocolate croissants, that this will be my new to go to brunch fascination.
Ingredients
- Rhodes Frozen Bread Loaf
- Fresh cherries, seeds removed
- Sugar
- Ghirardelli 60% Cocoa Chocolate chopped
- Butter
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Chocolate Cherry Bread
Ingredients
- 1 loaf Rhodes Bread
- 1 1/2 cup fresh cherries seeds removed and cut into quarters
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 4 squares Ghirardelli 60% Cocoa Chocolate chopped
- 2 tablespoons butter melted
- 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
Instructions
- Prepare a baking sheet with cooking spray, place one frozen loaf of Rhodes bread onto pan. Cover with a towel and let it rise at room temp for 4 hours.
- Prepare cherries, by removing stems, seeds and cut into quarters. Sprinkle with sugar, and toss to coat.
- Chop Ghirardelli chocolate squares and set aside.
- Using a pair of scissors, cut slits into the top of the bread, cutting ¾ of the way into the bread loaf. In between each slit, add in cherries and press them into the slits so that they go to the bottom of the slit all the way to the top. Repeat the same thing with chocolate. Use all the cherries and chocolate.
- Cover and let the bread sit for 30-45 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake for 25 minutes.
- Open oven and brush melted butter over bread and sprinkle with 1 ½ teaspoons sugar. Close oven and bake another 5-10 minutes, until a golden brown on top.
- Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack. Serve warm or cold. Enjoy!
What a delicious sweet bread that looks like! Love the fresh cherries in here 🙂
This is an amazingly beautiful dish! I can’t wait to make one for my family.
This bread Sandra! I just want the entire loaf for breakfast!
This is seriously amazing looking!! I love all the chocolate and cherry goodness inside the bread!!!
Oh my word – the cherries and chocolate together was sooooooo amazing. Totally addictive!
This bread is fantastic! I made it yesterday, and we finished it off this morning for breakfast.
Chocolate and cherries with bread will forver change your world, this was beyond amazing!
So good! I made this and everybody at our house loves it!
This was amazing! It’s a perfect balance of sweet and slightly tart, making it an irresistible treat. Definitely a recipe to keep!
This was so easy and so yummy! Cant wait to make it again!
I baked your Chocolate Cherry Bread over the weekend, and it turned out wonderfully! The cherries added such a nice tartness that balanced the sweetness of the chocolate perfectly.