1,560 easy and fully explained recipes, with +66K photos and 78 videos

Brioche dough

Name: Brioche dough
Prep time: 14 h 27 min
Total time: 14 h 27 min
Yield: 1 kg 250 g
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 225 g butter; 325 g egg; 500 g plain white flour (French Type 45); 15 g yeast; 25 g caster sugar; 9 g fine (or table) salt; 100 g fermented viennoiserie dough; 50 g caster sugar

It's a soft and rich dough, with butter and eggs which give a smooth and incredibly tasty brioche.

This is the basic recipe for brioche dough, used for all other brioche-based recipes on the site.

551 K 4× 4.2/5 (77 reviews)

14 hours 30 min. difficulté

Average

3.80 €

1 kg 250 g

8 Ingredients

Last modified on: September 16^th 2020

For 1 kg 250 g, you will need:

1 225 g butter
2 325 g egg ( How to... )
3 500 g plain white flour (French Type 45)
4 15 g yeast
5 25 g caster sugar
6 9 g fine (or table) salt
7 100 g fermented viennoiserie dough (optional)
8 50 g caster sugar
Total weight: 1,150 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation: 12 hours 60 min.

Resting: 1 hour 30 min.

All in all: 14 hours 30 min.

When should you start or finish this recipe?

If you start now, at , you will finish around : ?.Change start time

To finish around 7pm, you'll need to have started before: .Change end time

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 5 min.

Cut 225 g butter in small pieces, let stay at ambient temperature.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 3 min.

In the bowl of a mixer, pour 325 g egg puis 500 g plain white flour (French Type 45), 15 g yeast, 25 g caster sugar et 9 g fine (or table) salt.

Stage 3 - ⌛ 15 min.

Kneed at low speed for 3 minutes, then 8 minutes at medium speed.

Stage 4 - ⌛ 1 min.

Add 100 g fermented viennoiserie dough and 50 g caster sugar to the vat.

Note: This procedure (sugar and fermented dough are added later) helps the brioche to grow and puff up nicely, as the yeast is not saturated by a massive addition of sugar right from the start.

Stage 5 - ⌛ 15 min.

Kneed at medium until dough stop to stick to the bowl (10-15 minutes usually).

Stage 6 - ⌛ 1 min.

Add butter.

Stage 7 - ⌛ 10 min.

Kneed at medium speed until butter is fully incorporated.

Stage 8 - ⌛ 1 hour

Cover dough with plastic film, and let stay 1 hour at ambient temperature.

Stage 9

After this time dough has inflated, starting fermentation, which is good.

Stage 10 - ⌛ 2 min.

Remove plastic film and stretch the dough by lifting it up and letting it suddenly drop. This will remove all the fermentation gas.

Stage 11 - ⌛ 12 hours

Put back film on top, and put in the fridge for the night.

Stage 12 - ⌛ 2 min.

The day after, dough has inflate a bit, get cold, and can now be manipulated.

Pour the dough on your working surface with some flour on it.

Stage 13 - ⌛ 2 min.

Spread the dough using your hand.

Stage 14 - ⌛ 5 min.

Cut stripes of dough, and cut those stripes in pieces of the chosen weight.

Stage 15

For example 40 grams pieces to make a Nanterre brioche...

Stage 16

... or 250 grams pieces for brioche pies.

Stage 17 - ⌛ 30 min.

Roll dough pieces in balls, put on a baking sheet, cover with a plastic sheet, and put in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Then your brioche dough is ready to use in your recipe.

Remarks

It's more easy to succeed in making good brioche by using a special flour, strong in gluten, called "Farine de gruau". If you can't have this one, try to use a T45 flour.

Keeping: Brioche dough can be frozen.

Source: From Thomas Marie.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	100 RDI=40 %	510 RDI=50 %	240 RDI=40 %	4,590 RDI=230 %	19,200 RDI: 230 %
Per 100 g	9 RDI=3 %	40 RDI=4 %	20 RDI=3 %	400 RDI=20 %	1,670 RDI: 20 %

Possible allergens in this recipe: milk, egg, Gluten, leaven

How much will it cost?

For 1 kg 250 g : 3.80 €

Change currency:

Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.

Some other recipes using this recipeSee them all 14

Brioche galette

This galette (flat cake) is made with brioche dough, stuck with little pieces of butter and sprinkled with sugar.
107 K4.8 2 hours 3 min.

Chinois

"Chinese" - what a strange name for this cake! A kind of brioche, filled with confectioner's custard (crème pâtissière) which can be decorated with fondant icing.
280 K 24.7 5 hours 30 min.

Brioche feuilletée (flaky brioche)

For brioche feuilletée (or flaky brioche), the brioche dough is treated like puff pastry, with layers of butter incorporated by repeated turning and rolling. Coarse sugar crystals add a sweet crunchiness. Needless to say, this is very rich and quite irresistible.
141 K 24.6 3 hours 50 min.

Agen prune cake

This cake from Agen, in southwestern France, is a type of brioche. Inspired by the famous "tarte au sucre" (sugar tart), it is like a thick "galette" with a moist texture, filled with prunes and marzipan with Armagnac.
59 K3 1 hour 55 min.

St Tropez tart

This famous dessert from St Tropez is more of a cake than a tart. The sugar-sprinkled brioche layers are sandwiched together with a rich vanilla filling which is a mixture of confectioner's custard and whipped cream.
127 K3.8 3 hours 35 min.

This recipe uses (among others)

Other recipes you may also like

Red mixed pickle

This mixed pickle is made with a variety of vegetables left to mature for 2 weeks in diluted vinegar. The result is similar to gherkins and can be added to lots of recipes, or eaten with a snack or sandwich. This red version gets its name from beetroot and red cabbage, which eventually colour everything else in the jar.

April 29^th 202063 K 1 hour 30 min.

Old style brioche

Classical version of brioche use yeast to raise the dough, but in this recipe some leaven is added. This make a more rustic brioche, with a small taste of leaven.

December 19^th 2014319 K4.6 14 hours 6 min.

Fougasse with bacon and Comté

This is a richer version of the traditional Mediterranean recipe (originaly, it was a simple olive oil bread).

October 24^th 2017355 K4.1 3 hours 9 min.

Vanilla ice cream

Rediscover the full flavour of a real vanilla ice cream with this classical recipe.

November 6^th 2017456 K3.8 1 hour 7 min.

Lettuce "chiffonade"

Chiffonade is a French term meaning "made of rags.", it consists of shredding the heart of a lettuce into thin ribbons.

February 21^th 2011240 K 15 35 min.

News list of cooking-ez.com

Note: We'll never share your e-mail address with anyone else.

The 4 comments already posted on this recipe

Yes, exactly.
Posted by jh july 29^th 2020 at 18:51 n° 4
For this Brioche recipe, you mention that the sour dough is optional....so it means I can follow this recipe exactly and omit the sour dough and it's still good correct?
Thank you!
Monique
Posted by Monique july 29^th 2020 at 17:58 n° 3
Very good recipe giving excellent result, with a fluffy, light and delicious brioche!
I made a chinois with the dough and that truly turned out beautiful!

Just a word of warning though, the dough is hard to knead, and nearly killed my Moulinex robot, so had to switch to my hand mixer with the 2 dough "blades" that look like corkscrews and it takes the strain fine.

Thank you so much for this great recipe!!!

Franck
Posted by Franck august 2^nd 2009 at 19:06 n° 2
Very good recipe giving excellent result, with a fluffy, light and delicious brioche!
I made a chinois with the dough and that truly turned out beautiful!

Just a word of warning though, the dough is hard to knead, and nearly killed my Moulinex robot, so had to switch to my hand mixer with the 2 dough "blades" that look like corkscrews and it takes the strain fine.

Thank you so much for this great recipe!!!

Franck
Posted by Franck august 2^nd 2009 at 19:04 n° 1

Follow this recipe (as 6 people already do)

If you are interested in this recipe, you can "follow" it, by entering your email address here. You will then receive a notification immediately each time the recipe is modified or a new comment is added. Please note that you will need to confirm this following.