I am always looking for bread recipes that I can adapt to start in my bread machine, and just pull out after the dough cycle and shape, rise, and bake.
This one has great texture and is super easy to put together. You can choose to shape your loaves in a brad, or in bubbles – or just a loaf. Really flexible recipe!
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Easy Bread Machine “Hybrid” Brioche
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 1 loaf 1x
Ingredients
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- 1/4 C warm milk or half & half (about 110 deg)
- 3 T of Sugar
- 2 tsp. Active Dry Yeast
- 3 large Eggs, whisked up with a fork
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1/2 C softened Butter (I use salted, you can use unsalted)
- 3 C Bread Flour
Instructions
- Add the warm milk, sugar and yeast to the bowl of your bread machine & let sit 10 minutes til the yeast blooms (gets foamy.) If you don’t get a bloom on your yeast, the yeast was bad – OR your milk was too hot and killed it. Start over 🙂
- Add in eggs, butter, flour, & salt – set on dough setting and let it go
- When the dough cycle is over – pull from the pan and shape the loaf – don’t add flour, or not too much, unless your dough is incredibly sticky. I pat out into a rectangle and roll it up fairly tight – then pull towards me on the counter a few times to get a nice smooth top with good surface tension
- Place in your greased loaf pan and cover with plastic wrap (I spray the plastic wrap just a tiny bit so it doesn’t stick to the loaf)
- Let rise in a warm spot 30-45 min – until the dough is just above the rim of the loaf pan about an inch
- while bread is rising – preheat oven to 350 and put rack in bottom 1/3 of oven
- When bread is ready to bake, whisk an egg and paint it over the risen loaf gently so you don’t deflate it.
- Bake at 350 for about 25 minutes – check internal temperature – it should be 190 degrees when it’s done.
- SOMETIMES the top of my bread starts to get quite brown before my bread is done – I just tent it with a small piece of aluminum foil to keep it from getting too brown.
- Pull from oven when done – let sit 10–15 minutes and gently remove from the pan. Place it on a wire rack to cool completely – do not slice until it’s completely cool.
- Enjoy!
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 25 min
- Category: Bread
- Method: Baking