Recipe: Perfect Brioche des rois (Epiphany Bread)

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Brioche des rois (Epiphany Bread). Its name refers to the three Kings' arrival to visit the baby Jesus. Brioche des rois (Epiphany Bread) The galette des rois is getting popular in Japan, too, but the brioche is not. I heard that the brioche is popular in South France and Spain and I love it more!

However, in some areas of France, they also serve a Brioche des Rois, which consists of buttery brioche dough made in the shape of a crown; it can contain fruits and nuts, or it can be left plain.

In the standing mixing machine (with the dough hook) mix flour, eggs, yolks, milk, sugar,salt, azahar water and yeast.

Today, no galette des rois without a charm.

You can have Brioche des rois (Epiphany Bread) using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Brioche des rois (Epiphany Bread)

1. Prepare 340 g of bread flour.

2. Prepare 50 g of butter or margarine.

3. Prepare 40 g of sugar.

4. You need 1 pinch of salt.

5. You need 1 of egg.

6. You need 5-6 g of dried active yeast.

7. It’s 150 ml of water or milk.

8. Prepare of pop sugar.

9. Prepare of Drained cherry (red and green).

10. You need of Fruit jam of your choice.

The bread was then replaced by a brioche crown (were they gourmets?), and gold coin by a bean (cheaper!).

In France, a tradition going back at least three centuries, Epiphany has been celebrated with a special cake, or pastry, called gâteau des Rois (cake of the kings).

It is also sometimes called brioche des Rois.

A small bean (often a fava bean) was hidden in the cake and whoever found that bean became "the king of the feast." Vegan couronne des rois - Vegan Epiphany Brioche As I mentioned in my previous post for a vegan galette des rois , there are two types of cake traditionally eaten to celebrate Epiphany in France.

Brioche des rois (Epiphany Bread) step by step

1. Mix the flour, butter (half-melted), sugar, salt, egg, yeast and water and knead well. Let it rise for 1-2 hours..

2. Place the dough on a board and knead lightly to let the extra gas out. Make two rings. Let them rise again for about 1 hour..

3. Bake in the oven preheated at 190 C for about 20-25 minutes. Turn the side in the middle of baking..

4. Baked!.

5. Decorate the brioches. Spread the jam on the surface and put the pop sugar and drained cherries..

Toulousains like to eat one or the other every Sunday in January, a tradition I'm more than happy to keep up!

Brioche des Rois (served around Epiphany, esp. in Provence) Brioche can also be made in a pan without being rolled into balls to make an ordinary loaf.

Brioche dough contains flour, eggs, butter, liquid (milk, water, cream, and sometimes brandy), leavening (yeast or sourdough), salt, and sometimes sugar.

Food and drink are the centre of the celebrations in modern times, and all of the most traditional ones go back many centuries.

Around the world, special pastries and breads, such as Roscón de reyes, La Galette des Rois and King cake are baked on Twelfth Night, and are eaten for the Feast of the Epiphany celebrations.