For Easter, and a lot of years also for Pentecost now, I prepare a brioche. A luxurious bread which gives us a festive feeling and which we all love. This Easter I made us a brioche with seeds, and it was again a delicious bread. All kinds of seeds went in it, like line seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds and poppy seeds. The candied orange was homemade, a lot of work, but well worth it.
At Easter I love it when there’s homemade bread and other goodies on the breakfast table. A brioche bread should be there, a paasstol (a Dutch tradition), croissants and eggs. I always get my brioche recipes from the cookbook ‘Brioche verrassend anders’ from Nicolas Bernardé.
Other delicious Easter recipes are chocolate Easter nests, blackberry mascarpone tart, pancake rolls with salmon, kerststol (which is a paasstol around Easter time) and spinach pie. A Savory Bundt Cake with Bread Dough would also be perfect to prepare with Easter. When looking what to make for dinner check out our 100+ Easter Dinner Ideas. When looking for an easy breakfast recipe, search no further than this breakfast mug cake.
Review
The recipe was easy to follow, since I’ve made a brioche recipe many times before. I used orange liqueur instead of Grand Marnier, a baking spray instead of butter and dried yeast instead of active yeast. I kneaded the bread by hand instead of in the food processor.
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Brioche with Seeds and Candied Orange
Allergies: wheat, gluten, dairy, egg, citrus.
Ingredients
350 grams flour
4 eggs (really cold)
5 cl orange liqueur
8 grams salt
45 grams fine sugar
7 grams dried yeast
220 grams butter
8 grams mixed seeds (poppy, sesame, pumpkin, line)
100 grams candied orange peel
½ egg
Baking spray
Instructions
Add flour to a bowl. Make a dent in the middle and add the eggs and orange liqueur. Salt, sugar and yeast should be added each to a different corner. Mix by hand for 10 minutes (or with a food processor). Add the butter and kneed another 7 minutes, until the dough doesn’t stick to the bowl anymore. Loosely mix in the seeds and candied orange. Let rest for 30 minutes.
Form dough into a ball and place in a bowl dusted with flour. Cover with cling film, right on the dough. So it doesn’t dry out. Place in the fridge for 24 hours. (Could be less, but at least 3 hours.)
Divide the dough into 2 portions. Roll the 2 portions into 2 balls and let rest for 5 minutes. Make two 17 centimeter long bread from the balls. Place them in 2 greased baking tins. Cover with a towel. Let proof for about 2 hours, until the dough has doubled in size.
Cover the brioches with egg wash. Sprinkle with seeds and candied orange peel.
Bake in a 180°C/356°F preheated oven for 15 minutes. Then bake 20 minutes in a 160°C/320°F preheated oven. Let cool down until lukewarm. Serve with freshly pressed orange juice and whipped cream or French curd.
Notes:
- Recipe source is the cookbook ‘Brioche verrassend anders’.
- Enough for 2 breads.
- Best with homemade candied orange peel.
What a tasty recipe! The flavour combination of the candied orange and seeds sounds fabulous!
Yes, it’s a great combination.
Love brioche – honestly never tried to make it because it sounds complicated – but your recipe is excellent and might just tempt me to have a go!
Not that much complicated, as time consuming.
This looks so good. I think the candied orange makes it great.
Yes, the candied orange is a fabolous ingredient
This looks so good and I love the idea of an Easter Brioche with seeds and orange. I think I’ll give this recipe a go along with the spinach pie you made which also looks good!
Hope you like both of them!
I love candied orange but never thought to put it in brioche!
There are so many variations with brioche.
Brioche looks so delicious! I like that you add seeds and candied orange, brioche is great with some citrus flavor.
Yes, the citrus flavor made it extra special.