Vegan Chocolate Marble Bagel

First time making bagel!  Using a recipe from @makopantail ‘s blog because it looks pretty simple from her blog post. 

https://ko-bo.blogspot.com/2012/11/chocolate-marble-bagels.html?m=1I didn’t do well for the shaping as the bagel open up when I did the water bath 🤣 luckily this didn’t affect the taste at all! We tried the bagel when it’s 90% cooled down because the smell and the look of it….. made us couldn’t wait any longer. It’s crusty outside and chewy inside (watch the video below) 

Definitely gonna make this again! The ingredients are so simple!

Ingredients:

• Bread flour 300g
• Sugar 15g
• Instant yeast 3g
• Salt 5g
• Water 165g
  
  Cocoa paste:
• Cocoa powder 2 tbsp
• Water 2 tbsp
  
  Fillings :
• Chocolate chip

For cooking the shaped bagel : 1 big pan of boiling water and 1tbsp sugar

Steps:

1. Combine all ingredients (except chocolate chips and cocoa paste) in a mixing bowl and knead for 10 minutes until it get smooth
2. In a small bowl, combine the cocoa powder and water to make a Cocoa paste
3. Take out half of the kneaded dough out from mixing bowl (total dough is 480g so remove 240g) and add cocoa paste to the remaining dough. Knead till well combined
4. Proof the two doughs in separate bowls till almost doubled (about 1 hour)
5. Degas and knead briefly. Divide each dough into 5 small pieces (about 48g per dough). Bench rest for 20 minutes.
6. Shaping the bagel: Use a rolling pin to roll out two small doughs (one plain and one chocolate) to an elongated oval of about 20x40cm , flip it over so the smooth size is facing down. Stack the two dough up , sprinkle chocolate chips and start rolling it lengthwise. Pinch well to seal the seam. Use a rolling pin to flatten one end of the dough. Wrap the flatten end on the other end to form a circle. Pinch to seal tightly. Repeat for the other 4 bagels. Place the shaped dough on small square pavement papers about 10x10cm
7. Proof for 30 mins. Preheat oven to 190deg cel. Prepare a big sauce pan with boiling water and sugar.
8. Put the dough into boiling water (turn down the heat to simmering) , cook the dough 30 seconds each side. Place them on cooling rack to dry for 1 minute.
9. Place them back on baking tray and bake at preheated oven 190deg for 20-25minutes or till golden brown.