Brioche

A new brioche recipe, with a nice stretchy crumb and a good buttery taste! As always, the recipe will be much easier to make with a mixer, and honestly, without a mixer, given the amount of butter, I wouldn't necessarily recommend making this brioche by hand; you will spend an enormous amount of time kneading it… if you don't have a mixer, I suggest the recipe by Nicolas Paciello, which can be made by hand (I've tried it) and is delicious :-)



Preparation time: 45 minutes + 1 night and 2 hours of resting + 45 minutes of baking
For about ten individual brioches and one or two 28cm loaf brioche:

Ingredients:

200g whole milk
14g fresh yeast
280g butter
600g strong flour (400g in the original recipe)
12g fine salt
50g brown sugar
230g eggs
For the egg wash: 1 egg yolk

Recipe:

Dissolve the fresh yeast in the milk. Place the mixture at the bottom of the bowl of the mixer fitted with the hook.



Cover with the flour, brown sugar, and salt, then add the eggs.




Knead until you have a homogeneous, smooth mixture that pulls away from the sides of the bowl (5 to 10 minutes on low speed).



Then add the butter and continue kneading until the dough pulls away again from the sides of the bowl; the dough should be smooth, shiny, non-sticky, and form a veil:




Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it rest for 1 hour in the refrigerator, then degas the dough by pressing down on it.




Return the dough to the refrigerator for the night, still covered with plastic wrap.



The next day, shape the brioche as you wish: I made about ten balls of 60g and used the rest to make a braided brioche, but you can also place balls in loaf pans, make tête de brioche…






Once the brioches are shaped, let them rise for 1 to 1.5 hours depending on the room temperature. Then, brush them with the egg yolk diluted with a few drops of water, and bake in a preheated oven at 150°C for 45 minutes for the larger pieces, 20 to 30 minutes for the smaller ones.

And there you go, you will be able to enjoy the smell of the brioche baking in the oven, and then indulge yourself!