Brioche success!

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My girls are very partial to chocolate brioche from a well-known German supermarket, but it’s relatively expensive and I don’t often pass that way anyway, so I thought I’d have a go at making some. I used a bread machine (which I was given on Freegle) to mix the dough, and used a recipe I found on Mumsnet, which was: half a teaspoon dried yeast 250 g strong white bread flour 1 teaspoon sugar 2 oz butter (yes this recipe has a funny mix of metric and imperial measurements! That’s about 60 g) half a teaspoon salt 2 eggs, lightly beaten 80 mL milk I tipped everything into the bread machine after melting the butter, and let it get on with its dough program. This ends by warming the mix so I left it in there until it had finished mixing and the dough had grown to fill the pan. I tipped it out onto a floured surface and shaped it to fit the pan I wanted to bake it in - I made it into a plait and tucked in some chocolate chunks – then I used the microwave method I wrote about in a previous post. Basically I microwaved a glass of water on high until it started to boil, then I quickly popped the pan of dough, covered with a cloth, into the microwave with the hot glass of water and left it to sit there for about 40 minutes. It rose beautifully! Finally I baked it in a conventional oven at 190C for 30 minutes. It was declared a great success by all consumers! It wasn’t really chocolatey enough, but we just spread it with chocolate spread instead. All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2015.