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Brioches à tête

Prep time overnight
Cook time overnight
Makes 16 brioche têtes
Dietary Vegetarian
From The Great British Bake Off
Brioche à tête (or parisienne) is a brioche baked into a fluted round tin with a ball of dough placed on top to form the ‘head’, the tête. Great for brunch with a strong coffee. Equipment and preparation: You will need 16 brioche moulds.

Method


  1. Put the flour, sugar, yeast, salt, milk and five eggs into a free-standing food mixer and mix, for about five minutes, to a smooth dough. If mixing by hand, this will take about eight minutes.

  2. Add the butter to the dough and mix for a further five minutes in the mixer, or 10 minutes by hand. Put the dough into a bowl, cover and leave in the fridge overnight.

  3. The dough should now be stiff and easily shaped. Cut the dough into 50g/1¾oz pieces and divide 45g/1½oz for the brioche bodies and 5g/¼oz for the brioche heads.

  4. Using your hands, shape the dough pieces into balls. Put each large piece of dough into a brioche mould and push a smaller dough on top of each once. Leave the brioche in a warm place to rise for one hour.

  5. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. Brush the brioche with the egg wash and bake for 20 minutes, or until golden-brown.

  6. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Ingredients

  • 500g/1lb 2oz strong white flour
  • 50g/1¾oz caster sugar
  • 10g/â…“oz fast-acting yeast
  • 7g/¼oz salt
  • 140ml/5fl oz full-fat milk
  • 6 free-range eggs, one egg beaten for egg wash
  • 250g/9oz unsalted butter, softened

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Brioches à tête

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