PB&J Challah - DON'T DO IT!

So, I'm going to preface this whole post with three words.  DON'T DO IT!  No, well, that's not very nice.  Give it a shot.  Try it out.  Really, maybe you won't be as uber-disappointed as I was in the end result.  Because PB&J Challah was such an "eh..." I've put off the post.  I wasn't excited about the post because I was so unexcited about the end result of the bread.

In theory, it should be great, right?  We've done stuffed challah for Nutella, and the whole peanut butter-in-the-dough challah is tasty but really dry.  So, I combined the two ideas.  Three-stranded braid.  One peanut butter filled, one jelly filled, one just bread.

First of all, jelly = epic fail.  Maaaaaybe jam would work?  Maybe just fruit filled?  I don't know, but I ended up yelling to The Hazz in the living, "Help!" and having a goopy messy of fruity blob (descriptive, no?).   The peanut butter went in well.  But the baking result was so aaaaaaverage.  The peanut butter sort of turned into hard crusty... peanut butter crust?  The jelly disappeared almost entirely (I have no idea where it went) and the overall dough flavor was just off as a result.

It looks pretty but it was soooo blah!

I'm pretty sure PB&J Challah can be done.  I've seen mention of it on other websites, but never a method.  So, just DON'T DO IT!  (If you by some stroke of magic figure it out, by all means email me and you'll get a guest post FOR SURE!)

Shavua Tov, Chaverim!

View of Shabbat - April 8th

This past Shabbat, I made a "regular" with honey and gave another go at Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, this time with smooth peanut butter and quite a lot of it.  It was great!  Very happy with the result.

Experiment - Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Challah

I'm not ready to call this a real recipe yet, just an experiment.  I'll update you when I finalize it!

I added a blob of peanut butter (Skippy chunky because that's what we had) about a heaping tablespoon full.  My guess is that, as much of a purist and naturalist as I am, I wouldn't want to use natural style peanut butter where you have to mix the oil together.  I put the dough back on the bread hook in the KitchenAid and kneaded away, adding flour until the dough seemed healthy and like regular dough.

Add 1/3 c. chocolate chips by hand.  We use Trader Joe's chocolate chips because they're pareve (non-dairy), and they're way more delicious than any others I've tried!