With this loaf, Seattle-based baker Doughy Tribbiani wished his readers a "Happy Challa-ween". It's a beautiful bread that illustrates what amazing sculptures can be made with challah dough. He colored it with activated charcoal.
How does Tribbiani get this coloration in his sourdough? It's a baking style called "pane incamiciato", which means "bread in a jacket." Here's a YouTube video that illustrates the technique.
Tribbiani isn't completely happy with this Valentine's Day sourdough, but I think that it's wonderful. It's a pane incamiciato, but not fully opened. Just the heart pokes through.
-via Gastro Obscura
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Doughy Tribianni must be a "Friends" fan. Doughy & Joey rhyme. And there's a bread quote in a "Friends" episode.
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