Flaky brownie brioche


Flaky brownie brioche
This beautiful brioche contains the typical ingredients you'd expect in a brownie: chocolate, butter, brown sugar and pecan nuts.

But these are not just thrown into the mixture; the brioche is layered with them to create a delicious culinary bridge between Europe's viennoiseries and the all-American brownie.
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Last modified on: September 12th 2018

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For 1 brioches, you will need:

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Step by step recipe


Stage 1 - 5 min.
Flaky brownie brioche

Prepare the chocolate brioche dough

Put into a food-mixer bowl: 250 g flour, 8 g yeast, 5 g salt, 10 g brown sugar and 163 g egg.

Stage 2 - 15 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Knead for 15 minutes.

Note: For the best way to knead, see: A few tips for effective kneading at home.

Stage 3 - 3 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Then add 50 g fermented viennoiserie dough, 30 g brown sugar and 10 g powdered cocoa.

Stage 4 - 5 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Knead for a further 5 minutes until well mixed in.

Stage 5 - 10 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
While still kneading, add 100 g butter a little at a time.

Stage 6 - 1 hour
Flaky brownie brioche
Stop kneading once the butter is fully mixed in.

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

Stage 7
Flaky brownie brioche

Prepare the chocolate-butter square

While the dough is resting, melt 125 g dark chocolate with 60 g butter and 25 g brown sugar over a bain-marie.

Stage 8 - 5 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Mix until smooth. Don't worry if you can feel that there are still some sugar crystals undissolved; this will add texture, so worth keeping.

Tkae the mixture off the bain-marie.

Stage 9 - 3 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Stand an 8 inch (20 cm) square frame on a sheet of cooking parchment laid on a baking sheet.

Stage 10 - 2 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Pour the mixture into this mould and leave to cool. Refrigerate overnight.

Stage 11 - 12 hours
Flaky brownie brioche
After the dough has rested for 1 hour, knock back the dough by lifting and dropping hard back into the bowl.

Cover once more with plastic film and refrigerate overnight.

Stage 12 - 1 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Next day, take the square of chocolate butter out of the fridge and leave at room temperature to soften slightly.

Stage 13 - 2 min.
Flaky brownie brioche

Toast the pecan nuts

Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C).

Spread 10 g brown sugar on a baking sheet.

Stage 14 - 15 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Toast in the oven for 15 minutes.

Leave to cool.

Stage 15 - 1 min.
Flaky brownie brioche

Flake the brioche

Put the brioche dough on a floured work surface.

Stage 16 - 3 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Roll out into a large rectangle, about the same width as the square of chocolate butter.

You can trim the sides to neaten the rectangle and use the trimmings to make the leaven or soured dough for your next batch of brioche.

Stage 17 - 3 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Lay the square of chocolate butter on the dough.

Stage 18 - 3 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Cover the chocolate with the pecan nuts, either whole (as in the photo) or roughly chopped with a knife.

Stage 19 - 3 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Fold the dough over to seal in the chocolate butter, then scatter coarse sugar crystals over and press in with the rolling pin to help them stick.

Stage 20 - 3 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Fold the dough in half over the sugar.

Stage 21 - 3 min.
Flaky brownie brioche

Shape the brioche

Roll the dough out once more into a rectangle...

Stage 22 - 3 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
...and roll this up.

Stage 23 - 3 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Cut the roll into slices about the same thickness as the depth of your tin or mould, either loaf style...

Stage 24
Flaky brownie brioche
...or special brioche shape.

Stage 25 - 2 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Glaze the top of the brioche.

Stage 26 - 1 hour 30 min.
Flaky brownie brioche
Leave in a warm place to rise for 1 hour 30 minutes.

Before baking, you can scatter a little more coarse sugar over the top if you wish.

Stage 27 - 40 min.
Flaky brownie brioche

Bake the brioche

Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C) and bake the brioche for about 40 minutes.

Stage 28
Flaky brownie brioche
Turn out while hot and leave to cool on a wire rack.
Remarks
You will notice that the chocolate brioche dough is a lttle more complicated to make than a plain brioche dough. The ingredients are added in stages to obtain the right texture.

It is also a bit sweeter to balance the slight bitterness of the cocoa.
Keeping
Several days, preferably in a cloth bag. Freezes very well.
Source
Home made.
Nutritional information
Whole recipe
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
4,249 Kcal or 17,790 Kj66 gr400 gr265 gr
212 %25 %38 %40 %
Per 100 g
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
438 Kcal or 1,834 Kj7 gr41 gr27 gr
22 %3 %4 %4 %
Per brioches
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
4,249 Kcal or 17,790 Kj66 gr400 gr265 gr
212 %25 %38 %40 %
% 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: Gluten, Egg, Sourdough, Milk, Nuts
How much will it cost?
  • For 1 brioches : 5.37 €

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This recipe uses (among others)
FlourFlour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies, Hazelnut and orange cake, Liège waffles, Sausage mushroom and cheese crumble, Pink Reims biscuits, ... All
EggEgg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Crunchy salad, Meatballs, Madeleines, Crab Cakes, Sorrel omelette, ... All
Dark chocolateDark chocolate: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Paris flan filling, Brownies, Italian hot chocolate , Hot chocolate, Chocolate sauce, ... All
Pecan nutsPecan nuts: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Brownies, Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies, Pecan fruit rolls , ... All
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