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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.

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Last modified on: November 10^th 2013

For 2 brioches, you will need:

1 1 kg 250 g Brioche dough
2 200 g butter
3 150 g Pearl sugar
4 30 g beaten egg
Total weight: 1,630 grams

Change those ingredients for: 1 brioche 2 brioches 4 brioches 6 brioches

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
49 min.	2 hours 30 min.	30 min.	3 hours 49 min.

Keeping: A few days wrapped in a cloth or fabric bag.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

Brioche feuilletée (flaky brioche) : Photo of step #1

Roll out 200 g butter in a sheet of plastic . Tap it with a rolling pin to shape into a square about 20x20 cm (8x8 inches).

See the French croissants recipe for how to do this.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

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Roll 1 kg 250 g Brioche dough out into a large rectangle the same width as the butter and twice as long.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

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Take butter out of the plastic sheet and lay it on the brioche dough.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

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Fold the dough over and make a quarter turn.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

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Roll out again.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

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Scatter coarse sugar crystals (or crushed sugar cubes) over the dough and roll over these to embed them into the dough.

Stage 7 - 3 min.

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Fold the dough over in three.

Stage 8 - 3 min.

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Scatter more sugar over and roll in.

Stage 9 - 30 min.

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Fold the dough over in half. You have now given the dough a "double turn or "wallet turn".

Cool the dough for 30 minutes in the fridge or 15 minutes in the freezer, then repeat steps 5 to 9 to give a second double turn.

Stage 10 - 5 min.

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Roll out the dough for the last time into a long rectangle 20 cm (8 inches) wide.

Stage 11 - 3 min.

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Cut in half lengthways.

Stage 12 - 3 min.

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Roll each piece of dough up like a snail and place in a tin or mould.

Stage 13 - 2 hours

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Glaze, cover with a plastic sheet and leave to rest for 2 hours at room temperature.

Stage 14 - 3 min.

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Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C).

Glaze the brioche again and sprinkle with coarse sugar crystals.

Stage 15 - 30 min.

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Bake for about 30 minutes until the crust of the brioche is nice and golden brown.

When you cut it open, you will see how the layers of butter have created air pockets. With the caramelized sugar around the outside, this is simply divine.

Remarks

Some high-class restaurants serve brioche feuilletée made with wild mushrooms rather than sugar.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
6,663 Kcal or 27,897 Kj	106 gr	638 gr	410 gr
333 %	41 %	60 %	62 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
409 Kcal or 1,712 Kj	6 gr	39 gr	25 gr
20 %	2 %	4 %	4 %

Per brioche
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,332 Kcal or 13,950 Kj	53 gr	319 gr	205 gr
167 %	20 %	30 %	31 %

% 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).

How much will it cost?

For 2 brioches : 5.65 €
Per brioche : 2.83 €

Note : These prices are only approximate

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Source

Home made.

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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: Sausage in brioche, Eggs in brioche nests, Morteau sausage rolled brioche, Snails in a brioche, Agen prune cake, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Apple and almond gratin, Chicken breasts in a potato crust, Smoky potato and potimarron gratin, Comtoise apple charlotte, Icelandic-style fish and vegetable pie, ... All
	Pearl sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Liège waffles, Benoîton, Mouna, Chouquettes, Cramique, ... All
	Beaten egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Ham spirals, French croissants, Rolled chestnut and apple brioche, Brioche Tatin, Cramique, ... All

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Click on "brioche dough" in the list of ingredients (top of recipe).
Posted by jh november 13^th 2013 at 08:20 (n° 2)
This recipe look yummy. Where do I get the brioche dough. Don't know how to make it. Need actual recipe.
Posted by Lina november 13^th 2013 at 04:39 (n° 1)

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