Rich and buttery Brioche – simply the best for World Bread Day!

Brioche

makes: about 12 brioches

Tricky recipe but makes very rich, buttery and fluffy Brioches.

Ingredients

• 175 g butter
• 20 g milk
• 9 g fesh yeast
• 275 g flour
• 3 eggs (L)
• 40 g sugar
• 8 g salt

Instructions

1. Take out the butter from the fridge and cut into small pieces and place in a small bowl. Let the butter come up to room temperature while mixing the rest of the ingredients. If it’s warm in your kitchen put back in the fridge.
2. Add the sugar, 2 1/2 eggs (from fridge – keep rest of the egg for eggwash), milk (from fridge) and yeast to the bowl of a stand mixer. Whisk everything together until incorporated.
3. Add the salt and flour to the mixing bowl. Using the dough hook attachment, mix the dough on lowest setting for 4 minutes until all the flour is hydrated and everything is incorporated.
4. Let the dough rest 10 minutes, covered.
5. Mix another 4 minutes on lowest setting.
6. Turn the mixer up to speed 1 and start adding the butter one piece at a time right where the dough hook meets the dough mass. Wait to add the next piece until the previous one is fully incorporated and continue until all the butter is worked into the dough. Total mixing time for this step could take up to 15 minutes.
7. Once the butter is added, transfer the dough to a bowl and let ferment for 3 hours at room temperature.
8. After the 3 hours fermenting stretch and fold the dough then transfer the dough to fridge at least 12 hours.
9. Prepare a full sized baking sheet and another half sheet by lining them with parchment paper.
10. Roll the dough into a round, 1 cm thick.
11. Shape Croissants or/and petites brioches à tête.
12. Brush with eggwash (1/2 egg mixed with 1 ts milk) and let rise for about 1 hour.
13. Preheat oven to 180°C fan.
14. Bake in the middle of the oven for 15 minutes.
15. Enjoy lukewarm!