Last Monday I noticed a link in my Facebook newsfeed to a video from a Food Network Show called “The Best Thing I Ever Ate Messy.”  The video included a loaf of bread from The Berkshire Mountain Bakery called Chocolate Bread.  This wasn’t your typical loaf of bread, it looked like beautiful sour dough bread oozing with chocolate.  Usually I see these things on TV and there’s no way I can get a hold of them but this bread was about a twenty minute drive for me.  Because Monday was my day off I almost went to enjoy it but I decided it wasn’t on my diet plan and stopped myself.

On Friday’s a Farmers Market is literally right outside the door of my office.  I thought I’d seen a Berkshire Mountain Bakery stand out there before but when I went to look at their website I didn’t see anything saying they were at that market.  My break is always at 3:30 on Friday’s, the market closes at 5pm.  So I patiently waited while people went and got their goodies.  I even had an office mate, who happens to be my roommate go and get me a bratwurst for lunch and a pizza for us to share that night.  Finally my break came and I went out with another office mate.  We made the rounds at the other stands and in the distance I saw the Berkshire Mountain Bakery stand.  As we approached the gentleman behind the counter was chatting with other customers.  I looked down at his counter and noticed there was one loaf of chocolate bread.  I wanted to violently tell the women to stop talking and to get the guy to talk to me, instead I waited patiently.  He sold me the last piece of chocolate bread, it was clearly destiny.

I took the bread home and debated eating it but decided to wait.  I had to go back to work for four more hours and didn’t want risk getting myself sick.  I knew that once I sliced into it, it was going to be the bread against me and I would win.  I’d eat the whole loaf.  I made some pizza and left the loaf of bread for my return.

The chocolate bread patiently waited just like this on my cutting board to be devoured!  When I got home the first thing I did was put the oven on 300 degrees because I wanted the bread to be slightly warm when I ate it.  I only left it in for 5 minutes or so.

I cut the loaf in half because I wanted to get a view of the dense dark Callebaut chocolate that was put in the bread.

Look at the density of the sourdough bread and the pocket of chocolate.  As I bit into it I heard the crunch of the almost caramelized crust.  The sweetness of the chocolate played off beautiful with the sourness of the bread.

I shared with my roommate and we continued to eat piece by piece.  I knew that I would not rest until the whole thing was eaten.  Some days I can’t control myself.

Take a look at the amount of chocolate on that bread knife.  Here we are down to the final pieces.  We should have taken pictures of our hands and mouth’s because, just like the Food Network promised, it was messy!

The good news is that according to their website they deliver!  Although I think there is a $50 minimum order.  The bad news is that when I just looked at their website the nutritional information was listed.  Next time I need to share with more people.

I couldn’t figure out how to post the video from The Food Network on my site so it’s on the Facebook page for the site.  Don’t forget to like this page on Facebook!