Breakfast and brunch
Cottony Brioche and Honeycomb Bread Dough
This fluffy cottony dough is exactly what you need to make lots of pastries, including filled honeycomb bread. A light dough we recommend trying.
This cottony dough that rises in one hour is what you need to make soft, fluffy brioche and honeycomb bread... and it also works for many other pastries.
Ingredients
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- 2 cups warm milk
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon yeast
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon soft butter or butter at room temperature
- Chocolate, cheese, or za'atar for the filling (if using it for honeycomb bread, exactly like this recipe)
- For brushing the top: 1 teaspoon instant coffee dissolved in a little liquid milk
- For more delicious pastries on the site, here is croissants
- Also from Fatima, here is how to make easy date cake
- For more from Fatima, here is date pudding with biscuits
Method
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- Whisk the milk with the sugar, oil, yeast and vanilla, then add only 1 1/2 cups of flour and whisk again
- Cover the bowl and leave it in a warm place for 10 minutesTimers: 10 min
- After 10 minutes, add the remaining flour and the salt and stir, then add the butter and knead well by hand until you have a cohesive dough that is only slightly sticky
- Cover the dough and leave it until it doubles in size
- After the dough has risen, oil your hands and shape the dough into medium-sized rounds or balls
- Fill the balls as desired, seal them, then arrange them on an oiled baking tray
- Leave the tray in a warm place to proof the balls a second time before baking
- Brush the tops with a mixture of milk and Nescafé
- Bake the cottony honeycomb bread at 190°C for 30 to 35 minutesTimers: 35 min
Recipe tags
Breakfast and brunchInternationalVegetarianNut freeEgg free
Notes and serving ideas
- croissants
- easy date cake
- date pudding with biscuits
