
Our levain gives this loaf an extra tender, pillowy crumb. All of our chocolate is Belgian: we fold a 60% dark chocolate ganache into the dough and add chocolate chips, so every bite opens up in layers of deep cocoa. Rich in chocolate, not in sugar, and it stays soft for days.
Product availability
Next-day delivery
across California · $9.99, free over $65
Bakehouse pickup
El Monte · free · select at checkout
At Hour 20 Bakery, we make this bread with our own hand-fed levain and give it a long, cool fermentation so the flavor develops slowly. Clean label, made only with ingredients you can recognize.
Vegetarian — baked to order overnight in El Monte.
Bread flour, black cocoa powder, sugar, salt, levain (flour, water), whole eggs, cultured butter, milk, water, Belgian dark chocolate (60% cacao), Belgian bake-stable chocolate chips
Wheat, Milk, Eggs.
Made in a kitchen that handles wheat, dairy, egg, tree nuts & sesame — may contain trace allergens.
Frozen until needed. Thawed, it keeps soft in its bag on the counter for 3–4 days.
Per-100g nutrition analysis in progress
| Net weight | 320g |
| Diet | Vegetarian |
| Leavening | House levain |
| wild cultures — no commercial yeast | |
| Cold ferment | 20 hours |
| Baked | To order, overnight |
| Preserved | Flash-frozen at peak |



Bread flour, black cocoa powder, sugar, salt, levain (flour, water), whole eggs, cultured butter, milk, water, Belgian dark chocolate (60% cacao), Belgian bake-stable chocolate chips. That's the whole list — raised on our own hand-fed levain. Contains wheat, milk, eggs.
Every bake is baked fully overnight, then flash-frozen at its peak the same morning. Freezing pauses it at the exact moment it left the oven — a few minutes of reheating brings that moment back.
Slices: light toast, watch closely — the milk and sugar brown fast. Whole loaf: 5–6 min at 325°F, covered loosely in foil.
Frozen until needed. Thawed, it keeps soft in its bag on the counter for 3–4 days.
Thaw covered at room temperature and eat as-is — the crumb is meant to be pillowy. Tear, don’t saw.
We bake to order overnight in El Monte and deliver across California the next morning. Delivery is a flat $9.99, free on orders $65+ — or pick up free at the bakehouse in El Monte.
On California orders over $65
Slow-fermented 20 hours, baked overnight
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Raised on our own wild cultures in El Monte, California