Ostoros retes

A Hungarian chocolate bread, really more of a challah, with a moist, sticky consistency. Ostoros retes means whip strudel. The animal herding kind of whip.

Ingredients
dough:
600g flour
400mL milk
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk
2 tsp yeast
0.5 tsp salt

filling:
250g butter
3 tbsp cocoa powder
200g powdered sugar

egg wash:
1 egg yolk
1 tbsp milk

Preparation
Butter a 9x11 inch baking shape.

Bloom the yeast in the warm milk with the sugar. Add the flour, egg, salt and oil. Knead into an elastic dough. Separate into 6 equal balls.

Mix the ingredients for the filling.

Roll out each of the dough balls and fill with chocolate cream.

Roll the sheet up into a tube.

Braid the tubes and place into buttered baking shape.

Brush with egg wash. Allow to rise for 30 minutes.

Bake for 35-40 minutes in a 400F preheated oven.

Cool and slice.