Last Updated on June 1, 2025 by Nico
Create this fluffy sourdough chocolate bread with only flour, water, salt, and you favourite chocolate chunks. It’s a simple and sweet alternative to a classic artisan sourdough loaf.
I want to assure you that to make this sourdough chocolate bread, you don’t need to be a sourdough expert. I’ve been through the trenches with making sourdough bread and have refined the process to a handful of simple steps. And I’ll take you step by step through the process.
(And if you’re building up your sourdough starter, here are a bunch of tasty sourdough discard recipes!)
It’s true that sourdough bread takes longer to make than yeasted breads. But the depth of flavour that the fermented dough has is well worth the wait, in my opinion. And why not add dark chocolate to that depth of flavour?
At seven months pregnant, I think I have done a decent (albeit not perfect) job of resisting the urge to eat copious amounts of cookies and chocolate.
But there’s one craving that I am going to give into. Sourdough chocolate bread.
If you’re like me and want a sweet treat, I hope you follow along below.
Watch the video
Ingredients
Dark chocolate chips
Mature sourdough starter
Warm water
Organic rye flour
Organic white flour
Good salt
For complete measurements, see the printable recipe card below.
Tools You Might Need
Cast iron dutch oven
Wooden spoon
Instructions
(There is a video tutorial showing you how to make this sourdough chocolate bread you can watch if something doesn’t make sense. Or leave me any questions in the comments below.)
First, mix together mature and active sourdough starter with warm water.
To the starter and warm water mixture, add in organic rye flour and organic white flour.
Let the mixture sit on the counter covered with a plate for about an hour.
Add in good quality salt. To do this, pinch the salt into the dough until it’s completely incorporated.
After the salt is incorporated, complete one series of stretch and folds. Use your hands to reach down on one side of the dough and stretch it up. Fold it over the top of the rest of the dough. Do this on all sides of the dough – which usually means 4 times for me.
After completing this series of stretches and folds, add the plate back over your dough.
Every 30 minutes for the next 2 hours, complete one series of stretch and folds.
After completing 4 stretches and folds, put the dough into the fridge over night or for about 7-8 hours.
After 7-8 hours in the fridge, dump the dough onto a clean flat surface. Gently stretch the dough out flat being careful to preserve any air bubbles that have formed. Sprinkle the chocolate chips onto the flattened dough.
Reshape the loaves by using an envelope fold and bringing tension to the dough. See the video above for what this looks like if you’re not sure.
Let the shaped loaves sit on the counter for about 30 minutes. You can do this as you pre-heat your oven and dutch oven to 220 degrees celcius or 450 degrees fahrenheit.
If you want to score your loaves, you can do this now as well.
Next, bake the bread for 20 minutes covered and then for another 20 minutes uncovered. Baking the bread uncovered will help a hard crust to form on the top of the bread.
FAQ
1. Our favourite way to eat sourdough chocolate bread is straight out of the oven with lots of butter. And a hot coffee, if I’m lucky.
2. You can also serve sourdough chocolate bread with butter and raw honey.
3. For an extra decadent treat, you can toast the bread with butter, and sprinkle cinnamon sugar sprinkled overtop.
Sourdough bread lasts on the counter for about 4 days.
Yes. One option is to freeze the entire loaf in an air-tight container. Another option is to pre-slice the loaf and add parchment paper between each slice before freezing it. This way you can pull out individual slices instead of thawing the entire loaf.
Either way, sourdough bread lasts about 3 months in the freezer.
Try These Other Simple Sourdough Ideas
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Easy No-Wait Sourdough Discard Naan (No Yeast)
Simple & Tasty Sourdough Discard Banana Bread Recipe
Simple Sourdough Starter Pancakes Recipe
Fluffy and Simple Sourdough Chocolate Bread
Simple and Savoury Sourdough Scallion Pancakes
Easy and Delicious Sourdough Discard Apple Cake Recipe
Simple Sourdough Vanilla Cake With Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing
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Simple Sourdough Chocolate Bread
Ingredients
Method
- Mix 200 grams of mature and active sourdough starter together with 700 grams of warm water.
- To the starter and warm water mixture, add in 100 grams of organic rye flour and 900 grams of organic white flour. Make sure to mix until just combined.
- Let the mixture sit on the counter covered with a plate for about an hour.
- Add 30 grams of a good quality salt. Pinch the salt into the dough until it’s completely incorporated.
- After the salt is incorporated, complete one series of stretch and folds. Use your hands to reach down on one side of the dough and stretch it up. Fold it over the top of the rest of the dough. Do this on all sides of the dough – which usually means 4 times for me. After completing this series of stretches and folds, add the plate back over your dough.
- Every 30 minutes for the next 2 hours, complete one series of stretch and folds.
- After completing 4 stretches and folds, put the dough into the fridge over night or for about 7-8 hours.
- After 7-8 hours in the fridge, dump the dough onto a clean flat surface. Gently stretch the dough out flat being careful to preserve any air bubbles that have formed. Sprinkle the chocolate chips onto the
flattened dough. - Reshape the loaves by using an envelope fold and bringing tension to the dough. See the video above for what this looks like if you’re not
sure. - Let the shaped loaves sit on the counter for about 30 minutes. You
can do this as you pre-heat your oven and dutch oven to 220 degrees
celcius or 450 degrees fahrenheit. If you want to score your loaves, you can do this now as well. - And finally, bake the bread for 20 minutes covered and then for another 20 minutes uncovered. This will help a hard crust form on the top of the bread.
- 12. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Video
Notes
- Our favourite way to eat sourdough chocolate bread is straight out of
the oven with lots of butter. And a hot coffee, if I’m lucky. - You can also serve sourdough chocolate bread with butter and raw honey.
- For an extra decadent treat, you can toast the bread with butter, and sprinkle cinnamon sugar sprinkled overtop.
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