Chocolate Chip Mandel Bread
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Chocolate Chip Mandel Bread
Melissa Ben-Ishay
Sweet Recipes
Every Passover my mom makes this Chocolate Chip Mandel Bread. Would you believe that it happened again?! I always thought this was one of my grandma's recipes, but then when I asked my mom for the sake of this very blog post, I found out that this recipe is actually from my dad’s childhood friend Bobby Lieberman’s mom – they called her Goggy! As per my mom, Goggy baked these all year round, and I can confirm that they really are that good! The taste brings me right back to my parents' kitchen table, having these as a kid with my whole family during Passover. This blog post is dedicated to Gladys “Goggy” Lieberman.
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup softened unsalted butter or margarine
- 6 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ¾ cups cake meal
- 3/4 cups potato starch
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
- (2) 12-ounce bags semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
- Combine the sugar and butter in a standing mixer and whip together until it is fluffy.
- Crack in the eggs, add in vanilla extract, and mix until fully incorporated.
- In a separate bowl, add in cake meal, potato starch, and salt and then sift into the batter gradually.
- Mix your batter until smooth and fold in the chocolate chips.
- Shape dough into loaves on a buttered cookie sheet.
- Bake for 40 minutes or until golden brown.
- Slice while it is still warm and then let it cool.
- Enjoy!
