Brioche
Hello, I hope you had a lovely weekend. Today I am sharing a recipe for Brioche.
This is a beautiful dough to make however you will need a mixer as it really does need to be mix quite a bit.
You may prefer to make your dough into a loaf and not as shown here, I really waned to try making it like this as it looks very pretty. This brioche is great toasted so if it is not going to be devoured on the same day, I would suggest making it as a loaf as it will be much easier to toast.
To shape the dough into balls, you can roll it on the tabletop or cup a piece of dough in your left hand and imagine it was a square and fold each corner of the dough from the outside inwards to the centre of the dough, then place this side at the bottom of the tin.
A skewer can be inserted into the centre of the dough and if pulled out clean it it cooked.
The top of the brioche will cook much quicker than the inside so it is very important to have your tin foil ready to cover the top after about 5 minutes. What I learnt from Paul Hollywood in his book How to Bake
I love pulling this lovely Brioche apart while still warm and spreading some nutella or peanut butter on top 🙂
I hope you enjoy and have a good week xx
(Recipe adapted from Paul Hollywood – How to Bake
Brioche
Ingredients
- 500 g strong flour + a little extra for dusting
- 7 g salt
- 60 g caster sugar
- 10 g instant yeast or 20g fresh yeast
- 150 ml warm full-fat milk
- 3 eggs
- 150 g butter softened
Instructions
- In a mixer bowl with the dough hook attached add the flour and then place the sugar and salt to one side. If using instant yeast place on the other side of the bowl. If using fresh yeast place it into the warm milk and mix until it has dissolved. Add the milk and eggs and mix on a slow speed for 2 minutes.
- Then mix the dough on a medium speed for 5 minutes, the dough should become lovely and glossy and have an elastic texture. While the speed is still on a medium speed add the softened butter small piece by small piece. Continue to mix the dough for a further 4 - 5 minutes. Scrape down the sides half way through to make sure that all the butter get incorporated. After 4 - 5 minutes the dough should have become stiffer and more together but still lovely and soft.
- Leave the dough in the mixing bowl, cover and leave to prove for 1 - 3 hours until doubled in size.
- Grease a 25cm cake tin or a loaf tin.
- Tip the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knock back the air by folding it on itself a few times.
- Divide the dough up into 9 equal sized balls, place 1 ball in the centre of the tin and the other 8 around the outside of the tin. Cover the tin with a clean shower cap or a plastic bag and leave to prove for another 1 - 3 hours or until the dough has risen and can be see above the rim of the tin. (if making a loaf place the dough into a loaf tin after knocking back the air).
- Preheat the oven to 190°C
- Place in the oven and cook for 20 - 30 minutes. After 5 minutes place some tin foil over the top of the brioche as this will stop the top from over baking and burning. Once cooked remove from the tin and place on a cooling rack to cool.