Eggless Chocolate Walnut Rolls

I have been baking often now as am in summer vacation. After an exciting trip to Sicily we came back home with full enthu. Everyone at home just missed my homemade breads and hence i kick started baking by baking out this alluring eggless, chocolate walnut rolls which tastes more delicious than the usual cinnamon rolls. Since none at home want cinnamon rolls for their snacks, i simply went with a chocolate based walnut rolls. This rolls are completely eggless and not vegan. Yes butter and milk plays an important role for preparing this bread dough. Am running this month's blogging marathon with Go nuts as this week's theme. Obviously i will be posting three different nuts based dishes for this week's theme.

Very simple to make, these walnut rolls calls for sugar, cocoa powder and chopped walnuts for stuffing. Else the bread dough goes for usual eggless yeasted bread dough. Once baked, these walnut rolls makes an excellent evening snacks to enjoy thoroughly with a cup of coffee or tea. Not to forget, you can enjoy thoroughly this alluring chocolate and walnuts loaded bread rolls for your breakfast as well. Once conserved properly, these bread rolls stays prefect atleast for a week. The addition of walnuts gives an excellent texture to this fantastic bread rolls.

3cups All purpose flour/Bread flour
3tbsp Melted butter
1tsp Instant dry yeast
3tbsp Sugar
1tsp Salt
1cup Luke warm milk
3tbsp Cocoa powder
2tbsp Sugar
2tsp Butter (room temperature)
1/2cup Chopped walnuts
3tbsp Confectioner's sugar

Take the all purpose flour and melted butter in an another large bowl,add the yeast,sugar,salt to the flour, gradually add the luke warm milk and knead as smooth dough.

Dust the dough with enough flour and knead for few minutes until its turns soft. Arrange the dough in a greased bowl , let it sit for an hour in a warm place.

Once the dough doubled their volume, sprinkle few flour and knead again for few minutes, flatten the dough with a rolling pin.

Brush the butter over the flattened dough and springle the sugar, cocoa powder, chopped walnuts over the dough and roll the dough tightly as a log.

Slice the dough as 9 equal slices.

Arrange those slices over a greased square baking mould,cover it with a plastic wrap and let it sit again for an hour until they double their volume.

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Arrange the baking pan in the middle rack and bake the uncooked rolls for 20-25minutes until its turn golden brown.

Let the rolls gets cool completely.

Mix the confectioners sugar with few drops of water as thick paste, drizzle over the rolls before serving.

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