Brioche braids

AUTHOR
Sheila Zhang
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 3
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 6 TABLESPOONS Milk
  • 1 cube (42 g) fresh yeast
  • 500 g + some flour
  • 4 TABLESPOONS Sugar
  • 6 eggs + 1 egg yolk salt (Gr. M)
  • 400 g soft butter
  • 4 TABLESPOONS Apricot Jam
  • 2 TABLESPOONS crushed pistachios
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Warm 4 tablespoons of milk lukewarm. Crumble yeast into it and dissolve. Sift 500 g flour into a bowl and press a depression in the middle. Add yeast milk and 2 tbsp. sugar, mix with some flour to the pre-dough.

  2. 2

    Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes.

  3. 3

    Add the eggs, 1 pinch of salt and 2 tablespoons of sugar to the pre-dough and work into a smooth dough with the dough hooks of the hand mixer. Knead butter into flakes. Cover and leave to rise for about 1 hour.

  4. 4

    Line 2 trays with baking paper. Knead yeast dough on a little flour. Divide into 16 equally sized pieces and form each into a roll of about 30 cm. Weave this into a braid (see picture).

  5. 5

    Put them on the trays. Cover and leave to rise for about 20 minutes.

  6. 6

    Whisk the egg yolk and 2 tablespoons of milk. Brush braids with it. Bake in a hot oven (electric oven: 200 °C/circulating air: 175 °C/gas: level 3) for 18-20 minutes one after the other.

  7. 7

    Warm up the jam, stir until smooth. Brush the braids with the jam 5 minutes before the end of the baking time. Sprinkle with pistachios. Serve hot or cold.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
370 kcal
CARBS
27 g
FATS
25 g
PROTEINS
7 g

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