Easter Brioche Nest/Brioches Nids de Pâques

                                               Happy Easter wishes to you all..

Easter is around the corner and here all the shops are loaded with Easter special chocolates. Kids just love Easter especially for a long weekend as this Christian festival falls always during weekends and one more reason is chocolates (shaped like eggs).You can see these sorts of shaped chocolates only during Easter hence kids will wait eagerly for this festival. After this Easter Bunnies and this Easter Special lamb Brioche, this time Defi Boulange, a fabulous bread baking event by Nadia and Manue challenged the member of this group with this Brioche nest especially for this Easter celebration.This Easter Brioche nest is quite easy to make, even the shaping of this edible nest is really a very easiest one. Apart from colouring the raw eggs, this brioche goes for easy ingredients we usually go for making brioche dough.Sending to Srivalli's Anniversary Mela.

Colouring raw eggs takes just half an hour to get ready. I used four different food colouring to colour my eggs. Just mix few pinches of colouring with a teaspoon of vinegar, add some water and drop the eggs in. If you are using different food colouring, dont forget to prepare your food colouring in different glasses. Once the eggs gets well coloured, remove them from the water and pat dry the excess of coloured water with a paper towel, keep the coloured eggs aside. This raw eggs gets cooked while baking.Handle gently the coloured eggs before baking.This Edible nests are my fourth post of this month's Mega marathon as we are running a whole month of blogging with baking as theme.

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 Vanilla essence
1/2tsp Salt
80grms Butter
Egg yolk(for brushing)
1tbsp Water (for brushing)
Sugar pearls (as per need)
4 coloured eggs (check the intro for making coloured eggs)


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,vanilla essence 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.

Punch down the dough and knead them for a while, now divide the dough into 8 medium sized balls.

Roll the balls as long rops, take two dough rope and twist them and bring the ends together,seal them well.

Transfer it to the baking  sheet lined over a baking tray.

Drop the coloured egg in the middle and keep aside in a warm place for an hour.covered with a towel.

Preheat the oven at 350F.

In a small bowl, mix the egg yolk and water for brushing together, brush the top of the bread generously

Sprinkle the sugar pearls.

Bake in oven for 20-25minutes until the bread turns golden brown.

Let it cool completely in a wire rack.

Enjoy with your favourite drink. Dont forget to remove the egg shell before eating the eggs.

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