Easy Easter brioche

Name: Easy Easter brioche
Prep time: 2 h 40 min
Cook time: 2 h 40 min
Total time: 2 h 40 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 250 grams plain flour; 100 grams butter; 2 Tbsps caster sugar; 7 grams sachet fast-action yeast; 3 eggs; 1 serving beaten egg yolk, to glaze; 2 sugar cubes, lightly crushed

Easy Easter brioche takes roughly 2 hours and 40 minutes from beginning to end. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This lacto ovo vegetarian recipe has 328 calories, 8g of protein, and 16g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 6. If you have egg yolk, butter, sachet fast-action yeast, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. Easter will be even more special with this recipe.

Instructions

Tip the flour into a food processor fitted with a plastic kneading blade and add the butter. Process until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs. Stir in the caster sugar, a good pinch of salt and the yeast.

Ingredients you will need

Caster Sugar

Breadcrumbs

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Yeast

Salt

Equipment you will use

Food Processor

Add the eggs and mix to a soft dough, then knead in the machine for 2 mins. Butter a brioche mould or 2 pt loaf tin.

Ingredients you will need

Brioche

Butter

Dough

Egg

Sprinkle a layer of flour onto a work surface and tip the dough onto it. With floured hands, knead very briefly to form a ball, then drop the dough into the tin, smooth side up. Cover with cling film and leave to rise until doubled in size, about 2 hrs in a warm place.

Ingredients you will need

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas

Equipment you will use

Oven

Brush the top of the brioche with egg yolk, then sprinkle over crushed sugar and bake for 20-25 mins, until golden brown and the loaf sounds hollow when tapped. Tip out onto a wire rack and leave to cool.

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Egg Yolk

Brioche

Sugar

Equipment you will use

Wire Rack

Oven

No food processor? Simply rub the butter into the flour by hand, stir in the sugar, salt and yeast, then add the eggs and mix to a soft dough. Cover and chill for 20 mins (this makes it easier to handle), then knead on a floured surface for 5 mins. Drop into the tin and carry on as recipe.

Ingredients you will need

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Yeast

Egg

Salt

Dry Seasoning Rub