This Double Chocolate Amish Friendship Bread recipe is a super easy variation on our original Amish Friendship Bread recipe. Swap chocolate pudding for vanilla pudding, add a quarter cup of cocoa, add a cup of chocolate chips, and omit the cinnamon. It’s that simple!
Kitchen Friend Tamara Jessee added this fun tip: “Try a Death By Chocolate variation and use 2 boxes instant chocolate fudge pudding, ¼ cup Hershey Chocolate syrup instead of the cocoa powder. Coat the chocolate chips in flour to prevent them from sinking to the bottom of the pan. This is a very rich bread, like a dessert!”
Kitchen Friend Ginny Lantz gave the recipe a fudge flavor: “Try the Chocolate Fudge variation by replacing the 1 cup of oil for 1 cup of butter and increase the cocoa to ½ cup. A mixture of black cocoa and alkalized cocoa adds richness.”
“I used half whole wheat flour and half white flour,” says Kitchen Friend Lucia Cockfield. “I used soymilk instead of dairy milk, cut the oil down by half and added ½ cup of unsweetened applesauce. For the sugar I used ½ cup regular sugar, and ½ cup of dark brown sugar, and only used 1 small box of pudding. I added the ganache drizzle from the Recipe Box.”
Kitchen Friend Tammy Deatrich (Mercersburg, PA) added a new flavor combination: “I omitted the chocolate chips and added 24 crushed miniature chocolate peanut butter cups. A nice peanut butter surprise in every slice!”
Double Chocolate Amish Friendship Bread
Ingredients
- 1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup oil
- ½ cup milk
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups flour
- ¼ cup cocoa
- 2 boxes instant chocolate pudding
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325° F (165° C).
- In a large mixing bowl, add ingredients as listed.
- Grease two large loaf pans.
- Dust the greased pans with a mixture of ½ cup sugar and ½ teaspoon cocoa.
- Pour the batter evenly into loaf or cake pans and sprinkle the remaining sugar-cocoa mixture on the top.
- Bake for one hour or until the bread loosens evenly from the sides and a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.
- ENJOY!
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My daughter and I liked this a lot. Its not is sweet is classic friendship bread is and that’s a good thing I think. Plus who doesn’t like chocolate. We will be making this one again.
I just made this recipe also and found the batter to be incredibly thick. I used one large box of pudding since I could not find the smaller boxes. I baked this in a bundt pan instead of the loaf pans – for one hour. I had put cinnamon / sugar in the bottom and around the sides of the pan, but will not do that again. It made a hard crust on the bread. Also, a pudding mix has a thickener in it so that is what is making this so thick, I am sure. Next time I make this, I wll leave the pudding out and just add more cocoa. I also added chocolate chips and pecans. It was very good and I am not a real chocolate fan, but I enjoyed this because it was more of a milk chocolate flavor.
I have made this recipe several times, mostly as muffins. I have made some adaptations to make them a little healthier. I substitute 1/2 cup oil and 1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce for the 1 cup of oil. I reduce the sugar by about 1/8 cup and add in some whey protein powder. I use 1 large box of instant pudding mix (Whole Foods brand). I bake the muffins for about 25 minutes. Only fill the muffin cups half way. It makes a little more than 2 dozen so I freeze most and pop them in my kid’s lunch box in the morning. They defrost by snack time.
Thanks for sharing your tips, Karen! That sounds delicious. ❤️
Maybe it’s the two boxes of pudding, but there was no “pouring” of the batter. It was more like cookie dough. I just put my two loaves in the oven, so I can’t say how this will turn out yet. But just wondering if this is normal or if anyone else had experienced this with this recipe.
I will say I made the banana nut bread that only called for 1 box of pudding and it came out perfect. My husband couldn’t stop eating it!
Because of the amount of pudding, the dough is usually somewhat thicker in this recipe, but we haven’t found any problem with the finished bread. Let us know how it went for you, though! So glad you liked the banana nut AFB recipe!
I used the two packages of chocolate pudding mix, as listed in the recipe, and the batter was super thick! It took forever and a day to bake in a loaf pan, so next time I will go with a 9×9 and treat it like a brownie. It was really dense and delicious, though. Will make again.
So glad you enjoyed the recipe!
I had the same experience. The batter was more like cookie dough. I thought I may have done something wrong. I just put my loaves in the oven so I don’t know how this will turn out yet. And I substituted pecans for the chocolate chips.
I baked for 50 minutes and that was plenty. This was good, very chocolatey. I think it needs a full teaspoon of vanilla because taste was slightly bland. I put mini chocolate chips on top instead of the cocoa and sugar. I also think I would have liked it to be a little less cakey and a little more fudgey. However, it didn’t stop me from eating two large slices the first time we sat down with it!
So glad you enjoyed it, Annette! Thanks for sharing your tips!
I got a bag of starter from my boyfriend’s sweet sister at Thanksgiving. Tomorrow is baking day and this is the recipe i am going to try!
I’d like to try this
this was so amazingly delicious! I ended up calling it brownie bread because that’s just what it was like!
I made this last night using a bundt pan instead of 2 loaf pans. Beautiful and delicious. You can taste the rum. . .but that is not a bad thing in my opinion. Going to submit a photo of the finished product.
when using AFB starter for a recipe, such as”Double Choc AFB”, can I use a sugar sub like Splenda instead of sugar? I am diabetic and always use Splenda when I bake, just like sugar, and have not had any problems. Am brand new to AFB and can’t wait for my first “Day 10”
Thanks
I LOVE CHOCOLATE!!! I bet this is good! This will be tried, that’s for sure!
How can I print these breads off to make the starters and the breads and the cornbreads ?
I made this last night. I had used one box of chocolate pudding, one box of cheesecake pudding, 1/4c milk chocolate chips, 1/4c semi sweet chocolate chips, and 3 tsp of cocoa powder. It was wonderful!!
I love friendship bread and sharing with my friends