Really Easy Brioche Recipe

Recently I became – I have no real idea why – addicted to baking. Each week I’ve been baking something different, whether that takes the form of bread, cake, or whatever, I just have to get my fix. The problem is that with so many good things to try, I rarely get to make the same thing twice!

Brioche

To make things worse, I’m generally pretty poor at food blogging. The reason I blog about food is because I love eating food; this generally doesn’t lend itself well to hanging around taking photographs when I could be eating instead. Luckily on this occasion the recipe spawned two brioche, one for eating and one for, well, eating later!

Let’s be honest, there’s not much else to do when the temperature outside is as low as -7 degrees c and there’s snow and ice everywhere.  Couple this with the fact that the start of winter is still almost a month away (it doesn’t officially start until the 22nd of December in the UK) and the fact my boiler is playing up (making the house unexpectedly cold at random times, usually first thing in the morning), and it truly is a time for staying inside making the most of the heat from the oven!

The recipe I’ve used for this isn’t my own, rather, I’ve used the one from the fantastic River Cottage: Bread handbook.  To be quite honest, said book has been the source of pretty much anything I’ve baked with yeast in it this year, and that’s no bad thing.  Everything is just so simple, even for a beginner such as myself!

With Apricot Jam...

A brioche is a cross between a bread and a cake; while quite bread-like in texture, it includes eggs and sugar in the recipe.  This creates something absolutely perfect for breakfast slavered with (my favourites) Nutella or Apricot jam.  Delicious!

Note I’m entering this to the A Slice of Cherry Pie “Snow Day Bake-Off” event.

Recipe from the “River Cottage Handbook: Bread”.