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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 2 brioches, you will need:

1 100 g hazelnuts
2 500 g Brioche dough
3 100 g Candied grapefruit peel
4 100 g chocolate chips
5 100 g egg white
6 100 g caster sugar
7 150 g ground almonds
8 30 g flakeds almonds
9 20 g icing sugar
Total weight: 1,200 grams

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Times for this recipe

Preparation: 12 hours 47 min.

Resting: 3 hours

Cooking: 1 hour

All in all: 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 100 g hazelnuts on a baking sheet and toast in the oven for 15 minutes.

Leave to cool.

Stage 2 - 30 min.

Prepare 500 g Brioche dough. When made, add 100 g Candied grapefruit peel, 100 g 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 100 g egg white, 100 g caster sugar and 150 g 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
4,816 Kcal or 20,164 Kj	589 gr	3,322 gr	1,382 gr
241 %	227 %	313 %	209 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
401 Kcal or 1,679 Kj	49 gr	277 gr	115 gr
20 %	19 %	26 %	17 %

Per brioche
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,408 Kcal or 10,082 Kj	295 gr	1,661 gr	691 gr
120 %	113 %	157 %	105 %

% 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, leaven

How much will it cost?

For 2 brioches : 8.82 €
Per brioche : 4.41 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

Brioche dough

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Ground almonds

Like these other recipes: Crisp apricot and pistachio tart, Marzipan (almond paste), Fruit crumble, Caramelized apple rice pudding, Almond macaroon cake, ... See them all 44

Chocolate chips

You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies, ... See them all 64

Hazelnuts

Like these other recipes: Little chocolate and hazelnut fondants, Chocolate mendiants, How to peel hazelnuts, Granola, ... See them all 4

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