Brioche dough
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.
This is the basic recipe for brioche dough, used for all other brioche-based recipes on the site.
420,170 24.3/5 for 61 ratings
Grade this recipe: Last modified on: July 13th 2018
For 1 kg 250 g, you will need:
- 0
225 g butter - 1
325 g egg - 2
500 g plain white flour (French Type 45) - 3
15 g yeast - 4
25 g caster sugar - 5
9 g fine (or table) salt - 6
100 g fermented viennoiserie dough (optional) - 7 50 g caster sugar
- Total weight: 1,249 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Resting | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 12 hours 57 min. | 1 hour 30 min. | 14 hours 27 min. |
At what time?
- When will I finish if I start the recipe at a certain time?
When should I start for the recipe to be ready at a certain time?
Keeping:
Brioche dough can be frozen.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 - 11 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.
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.
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.
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.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 4,586 Kcal or 19,201 Kj | 104 gr | 506 gr | 238 gr |
| 229 % | 40 % | 48 % | 36 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 367 Kcal or 1,537 Kj | 8 gr | 40 gr | 19 gr |
| 18 % | 3 % | 4 % | 3 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 1 kg 250 g : 3.99 €
Note : These prices are only approximate.
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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.
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Eggs in brioche nests
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Pains briochés aux raisins
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Source
From Thomas Marie.More recipes?
This recipe uses (among others) | Plain white flour (French Type 45): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Yeast-based flaky dough (for croissants), Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée), ... All |
| Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rum babas, Creamy plum and pear clafoutis, Moist chocolate cake, Pear and chocolate tart with a hint of mint, Almond mug cake for Mary, ... All |
| Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Seafood feuillantines, Melting Epoisses on toast , Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies, Stock-pot fish , Flaky chocolate brioche, ... All |
| Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Caramelised apple pie, How to cook caramelized puff pastry well, Pistachio custard tart, Peach and verbena feuilleté, Flognarde, ... All |
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Your 2 comments or questions on this recipe
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
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