- Preparation time
- 10 mins
- Cooking time
- 180 mins
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Serves
- 6 people
- Meal course
- Ingredient Item
- Posted by
- Posted on
- April 4, 2016
- 3 Cup
- Flour - All Purpose
- 1/4 Cup
- Milk - Dried
- 2 Tbsp
- Sugar - White
- 1 1/4 tsp
- Salt
- 1 Tbsp
- Active Dry Yeast
- 4 Individual
- Eggs
- 1/4 Cup
- Water
- 10 Tbsp
- Butter - Unsalted
Brioche buns are rich, tender, pillow-like, and are the perfect vessel for a big, juicy burger.
This recipe is based on using a bread machine to prepare the dough.
- Warm the water slightly (it should be luke-warm, not hot) then add to the bread machine.
- Chop the butter into small chunks and add to the luke-warm water
- Seperate 1 of the eggs & refridgereate the white for later use, then to the bread machine add the 3 whole eggs and 1 yolk
- Add all the dry ingredients except the yeast
- Make a small well in the top of the dry ingredients and add the yeast,
- Run your bread machine on the regular dough setting.
- When the dough cycle is complete, move the dough to a large bowl, cover and refrigerate overnight. This will slow the rise and make the dough much easier to work with.
- Next day, remove the dough from the refrigerator, and divide it into six pieces.
- Shape each piece into a flattened ball, and place into the lightly greased cups of an individual pie and burger bun pan. Or place the buns on a lightly greased or parchment-lined baking sheet, leaving about 2" to 3" between them.
- Cover the buns, and let them rise at room temperature until they're quite puffy. This may take as little as 1 hour; or up to 2 to 3 hours, depending on how warm your rising environment, and how cold the dough. Towards the end of the rising time, preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Brush the buns with egg wash, and if desired you can top with sesame seed or poppy seed etc... but the seeds are not required.
- Bake on the middle rack of the oven for 14 to 18 minutes, tenting with foil after 10 minutes if they appear to be browning too quickly. The finished buns will register at least 190°F on a digital thermometer inserted into the center.
- Remove the buns from the oven, and cool on a rack.