Brioche

Ingredients for 20 servings:

• 250 g flour
• ½ cube of fresh yeast
• 1 tsp sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tbsp water
• 150 g butter, soft
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 egg yolk

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Total time approx. 20 minutes

Sift flour into a bowl and make a well in the center. Stir the yeast and sugar until liquid. Then pour the yeast into the well, sprinkle a little flour over it, and let it rise until cracks appear. Whisk the eggs with water and add them to the flour well with the cooled, melted butter. Sprinkle salt on the edge of the flour. Mix everything together to form a smooth dough, ideally in a food processor or with a mixer. Pour the dough into a greased loaf pan or brioche pan, smooth it out, and brush with egg yolk. Let it rise in a preheated oven at 50°C until it reaches the edges of the pan. Bake the brioche at a rising temperature: start at 100°C, then increase the temperature by 20 degrees every 5 minutes until it reaches 180°C after 20 minutes. Then bake at 220°C, using bottom heat only, for a further 10 minutes.