Saturday, December 1, 2012

Brioche Christmas Tree

Last year with a couple of friends i baked for a month for Champa's Bake-a-thon, this year am again gonna run but  this time just 3 days per week. For the first day of bake a thon, am posting my lil one's latest favourite, brioche christmas tree.Since christmas is approaching quickly, my kids started asking to bake something christmassy. As i planned to bake bread, my daughter suggested to bake a brioche as christmas tree. I simply loved her brilliant idea and quickly prepared my brioche dough.

This cute looking brioche christmas tree was prepared with usual brioche dough and goes for eggs. I have already prepared a light version of brioche,this time i went for almost the same dough preparation apart from butter, i went adding more butter this time and these cute brioche christmas tree came out extremely spongy,buttery and delicious.I baked three medium sized brioche christmas tree from the measurement i have given here and went for some black poppy seeds and sesame seeds for the crust.Do check ChampaSrivalliSumana Deepak,Veena and Preeti Deo wat they baked for the first day of bake-a-thon.Sending to 60days of Christmas hosted by Priya and Divya.




3cups Bread flour or all purpose flour
1tbsp Active dry yeast
1/2cup Milk (luke warm)
3nos Egg yolks
1/4cup Sugar +1tsp Sugar
1tsp Salt
150grms Butter
1no Egg yolk+1tsp Milk (for brushing)
Black poppy seeds(as per need)
Sesame seeds (as per need)

Mix the yeast,a teaspoon of sugar and salt to the luke warm milk, keep aside until the yeast turns foamy.

Meanwhile take the flour,egg yolks,sugar in a large bowl, add gradually the foamy yeast and turn everything as a soft dough, now add the butter and knead everything for 10minutes.

Arrange the dough in a bowl covered with a towel,keep aside for atleast for 2hours until they double their volume.

Knead the dough again for few minutes, divide the dough as three equal balls.

Divide 16 tiny balls from the already divided dough. Roll them as round balls and place it over a baking sheet, one by one without any space as christmas tree.

Keep it in warm place for half an hour.

Preheat the oven at 350F. Mix the egg yolk with milk for brushing together, now brush the uncooked brioche christmas tree generously.

Springle the poppy seeds and sesame seeds on the top and  bake them for 20-25minutes until the crust turns golden brown.

Cool it completely on a wire rack.

39 comments:

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

what a cute idea :) this looks fantastic on a christmas table

Sangeetha M said... Reply To This Comment

Perfect n soft brioches...looks fabulous!!! great job Priya!!

Uma said... Reply To This Comment

such a cute tree ! awesome!

Rasi said... Reply To This Comment

Merry christmas & the tree is such a nice beginning of festival times..plus u are super creative priya :)

raaji said... Reply To This Comment

nice creativity priya..

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

this tree is so delicious...and so so cute priya

Vidhya said... Reply To This Comment

wow. this looks really neat and yummy.

Julie said... Reply To This Comment

wow,very cute tree & delicious bake!!
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Champa said... Reply To This Comment

Oh, it looks so cute Priya. Fun for kids to pull the rolls and eat them.

Swathi said... Reply To This Comment

Brioche Christmas tree looks delicious and beautiful.

divyagcp said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely brioche tree.. Perfect for the Christmas season..

Mahi said... Reply To This Comment

That's a cute Christmas tree!

Raji said... Reply To This Comment

This is so pretty and cute too...wonderfully done Priya !

Mélange said... Reply To This Comment

Absolute fun Priya..Perfect and so temptingly baked !

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Wow these are so perfect for the December season!!! A suggestion is that it would be more festive if you had added some red chili flakes and some fresh coriander leaves to add the color!!!

Love your creativity!!
Sowmya

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Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Fantastic and looks yum!!

Sangeetha Priya said... Reply To This Comment

What an innovative idea, credits to ur daughter n cute christmas tree, love it :-)

Alessandra said... Reply To This Comment

I love this idea!! I did it too, but with bread rolls with different toppings, lovely for the Xmas table!

Ciao
Alessandra

Aruna Manikandan said... Reply To This Comment

wow..
looks wonderful dear :)

Priya Suresh said... Reply To This Comment

@Sowmya, its a sweet brioche, if am making something savoury, definitely i go for ur suggestion, actually i wanted to add some tutti futti chunks here, but none wanted to have as though so dropped the idea:).

Love2cook Malaysia said... Reply To This Comment

So cutely done dear! You are just rocking!!! :)

Priya Satheesh said... Reply To This Comment

wow....Soo cute and very innovative..Love this!

Sum said... Reply To This Comment

It is very very pretty!

Isingcakes said... Reply To This Comment

Loving the beautiful tree shape you created!! I love how you come up with simple and quick yummy bakes.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Awesome...awesome dear..

Srivalli said... Reply To This Comment

My gosh, that's awesome Priya..so good..

great-secret-of-life said... Reply To This Comment

New and innovative idea.. So yummy tree Priya
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veena said... Reply To This Comment

Looks so cute Priya!!

Jiboombaa said... Reply To This Comment

Beautiful Christmas tree...yummy and looks soft...

Suja Manoj said... Reply To This Comment

You are very creative dear,looks so cute and perfectly baked.

Laavanya said... Reply To This Comment

i've heard so much abt rich brioche bread but not tasted it so far... Got to try this and the Xmas tree version is a lovely idea... your daughter is smart like you :)

saraniskitchen said... Reply To This Comment

innovative idea:) ur tree looks awesome

Pavithra Elangovan said... Reply To This Comment

Priya nooooooooooooobody can beat you,U know I misssssssssssssed lot of your post just scrolled and saw. OMG so many barley recipes...so many bakes... ur always super woman ..Hats off to you...

rani arun said... Reply To This Comment

this is simply superb...luv that cute brioche bread...

Nammaruchi.blogspt.com said... Reply To This Comment

Love brioche bread urs looking very tempting...

Nandinis food said... Reply To This Comment

Wow! It's so cute! Very lovely!

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

cute Christmas tree!

Manju @ Manjus Eating Delights said... Reply To This Comment

OMG...that looks so super cute and yummy!! I'd like a brioche roll now.

Regards,
Manju

Cham said... Reply To This Comment

Beautiful edible tree girl!