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Brioche royale

Brioche royale is a very rich brioche, made with candied fruit, toasted hazelnuts and chocolate chips.

Just before baking, it is topped with "macaronade": a macaroon-style mixture of ground almonds and sugar with egg white. This creates a crust when baked and gives the brioche its elegant finish.

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Last modified on: May 5^th 2019

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For 1 brioche, you will need:

1 teaspoon hazelnuts
2 1 cup Brioche dough
3 ¼ cup Candied grapefruit peel
4 ¼ cup chocolate chips
5 ¼ cup egg white
6 ¼ cup caster sugar
7 ¾ cup ground almonds
8 2 ½ tablespoons flakeds almonds
9 1 tablespoon icing sugar

Change these quantities to make: 1 brioche 2 brioches 4 brioches 6 brioches

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
12 hours 47 min.	3 hours	1 hour	16 hours 47 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 15 min.

Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C).

Spread teaspoon hazelnuts on a baking sheet and toast in the oven for 15 minutes.

Leave to cool.

Stage 2 - 30 min.

Prepare 1 cup Brioche dough. When made, add ¼ cup Candied grapefruit peel, ¼ cup chocolate chips and the hazelnuts to the mixer bowl.

Stage 3 - 4 min.

Mix for a few more minutes until well mixed together.

Stage 4 - 1 hour

Cover with plastic film and leave to rest at room temperature for 1 hour.

Stage 5 - 12 hours

After this time, knock back the dough. Do this by lifting it and letting it fall back sharply into the bowl a couple of times.

Cover with plastic film again and leave the bowl in the fridge overnight.

Stage 6

Next day, your dough should be firm and risen.

Stage 7 - 4 min.

Cut into pieces of about 400 g.

Stage 8 - 2 hours

Roll these pieces into long rolls, the same length as your tins or moulds. Lay the dough in the tins (greased if they are not non-stick).

Cover with a plastic sheet and leave to rest in a warm place for 2 hours.

Stage 9 - 5 min.

The macaronade

In a large bowl mix ¼ cup egg white, ¼ cup caster sugar and ¾ cup ground almonds.

Your macaronade is ready.

Stage 10 - 4 min.

Preheat the oven to 360°F (180°C).

Spread the top of each brioche generously with half the macaronade.

Stage 11 - 45 min.

Scatter with flaked almonds, then sprinkle with icing sugar.

Bake for 45 minutes.

Stage 12

Admire the fine "royal" look of your brioches...

Stage 13

Turn out the brioches and leave to cool on a wire rack.

Remarks

You can use other candied citrus peel, especially orange.

For the chocolate, the recipe suggests shavings or curls, which are easier to make, but you can use the same weight of chips or buttons.

Keeping

Several days in a cloth bag.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,571 Kcal or 6,577 Kj	57 gr	506 gr	149 gr
79 %	22 %	48 %	23 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
262 Kcal or 1,097 Kj	10 gr	84 gr	25 gr
13 %	4 %	8 %	4 %

Per brioche
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,571 Kcal or 6,577 Kj	57 gr	506 gr	149 gr
79 %	22 %	48 %	23 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Nuts, Milk, Egg, Gluten, Sourdough

How much will it cost?

For 1 brioche : 4.78 $

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Brioche dough: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Apple and Blackcurrant Brioche Pies, Mont d'or in brioche, Agen prune cake, Morteau sausage rolled brioche, Flaky chocolate brioche, ... All
	Ground almonds: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Gâteau Nantais, Checkerboard biscuits, Almond dacquoise, Almond mug cake for Mary, Almonds pyramids, ... All
	Candied grapefruit peel: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chocolate thins with toasted nuts, Calissons, Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse, Grapefruit moelleux, Chocolate mendiants, ... All
	Chocolate chips: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies, ... All

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