Description
An easy-to-make braided chocolate brioche
Ingredients
1 sachet baker's yeast
15g warm water
1 teaspoon sugar
10 cl warm water
40 gr melted butter or planta
1 egg
4 tablespoons maple syrup
50 gr sugar
370 gr flour (Ideally T65 but T55 also works)
150 gr chocolate chips
Instructions
Dissolve yeast:
- Place yeast, water and sugar in a glass.
- Stir well with a spoon to dissolve the yeast, then place cling film over the top to speed up rising.
- Your yeast will foam and rise.
- After about 10 minutes, you're ready to use it.
Prepare the brioche dough
- Place the water, butter, egg, maple syrup, sugar, flour and baking powder in the bowl of your food processor.
- Knead at slow speed (1) for about 7-10 minutes, then at slightly faster speed (2-3) for about 5 minutes.
- Leave the dough to rise for about 1 hour
- Cut the dough into 6 equal-weight pieces.
Braiding
- Take 3 dough pieces and roll them out separately to obtain a rectangle of about 10cm by 30 cm.
- Place the chocolate chips in the middle of the dough pieces.
- Close the dough pieces and lightly roll them to obtain a roll (or pudding) of dough with the nuggets in the middle.
- Braid the three rollers
- Repeat with the remaining three dough pieces.
- You now have two buns, leave to rise for about 1 hour, covered with a tea towel.
Cooking
- Preheat oven to 400°F (or 200°C)
- Bake the two buns for about 15 minutes.
- Enjoy!
Notes
You can replace the maple syrup with orange blossom water. In this case, increase the sugar a little (80g instead of 50g).
My recipe uses a food processor, but you can also make it by hand. To do so, mix all the ingredients in a bowl to obtain a homogeneous dough, then knead the dough by hand for about 20 minutes.
For braiding, you can do as you like. If you don't know how to make one. Here's an example: http://www.thermovivie.com/2014/08/comment-faire-une-brioche-tressee.html
- Prep Time: 20
- Cook Time: 15
- Category: patisserie
- Cuisine: French
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