the best brioches

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my mom loves bread. and brioche. and bread. these little buns were for her. i believe she could live from bread and brioches. after eating them warm with some butter which started melting and drizzling in the little holes we decided that these were the best ones we've ever eaten. they are buttery, soft and enclosed in a crumbly crust - you see, you have to try them! :D whether you enjoy them for breakfast, afternoon snack or dessert, brioches are never wrong.

after the first bite i'm somewhere in paris, in a beautiful café, some hot coffee in front of me, chatting and dreaming about the future. i'm each time impressed how smells and flavours can take you back in time or to certain places and memories.

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RECIPE [adapted from "die kunst der patisserie"]

for 5 brioches

_ 10g fresh yeast

_ 200g flour

_ 5g salt

_ 20g brown sugar

_ 120g eggs

_ 100g butter

1// take the butter and the eggs straight out of the fridge and combine all your ingredients in an electric mixer except for the butter

2// mix it on a slow speed until the dough starts coming off from the bowl. now add the cold butter in pieces and beat it until it's a homogenous mass

3// cover the bowl with a kitchen towl and refrigerate it for two hours

4// then take the dough out, knead it shortly and divide it in five equal sized balls. now you form with a third of each part a little ball and with the rest a bigger one. place the big ones in your brioche tins and put the little one on top.

5// let them rise for another hour and a half in a warm surrounding and preheat your oven to 200° celcius

6// finally the brioches have to be baked for 15 mins.

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