Bread Machine Brioche Dough /spanish Roscón De Reyes

Total Time: 2 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 30 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 3/4 cup water
• 2 -4 tablespoons butter
• 5 large eggs
• 4 1/2 cups bread flour
• 2 -6 tablespoons sugar (use larger amount for king cake)
• 1/2 tablespoon ground dried lemon peel
• 3 1/2 teaspoons saf yeast
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 tablespoon vital wheat gluten or 1 tablespoon bread enhancer
• 4 tablespoons butter (optional) or 4 tablespoons margarine, melted (optional)
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 4 tablespoons ground cinnamon
• 1/4 cup flour or 1/4 cup oatmeal
• 2 cups sifted powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon grated fresh lemon rind
• 1 dash salt
• 3 tablespoons hot water
• 2 tablespoons butter

Recipe

• 1 the dough.
• 2 this makes a high-rising, soft but very springy dough. i use the sweet bread, not the dough setting, because it requires two full kneadings and risings before shaping. i take the dough out just before the baking cycle starts, punch it down and flatten it into a long 1" thick, 5" wide rectangle, sprinkle it with the cinnamon streusel or other filling and roll it up, shaping the long roll on a buttered cookie sheet.
• 3 i pinch the ends together to make a full circle. let rise in a warm place covered by a damp towel for about 50 minutes, then place in a cold oven, turn on to 375 degrees, and bake about 45 minutes until well risen and a deep golden brown.
• 4 the filling: after it cools, glaze generously with a thin, lemony sugar glaze, then sprinkle with colored sugars in stripes. use a traditional boiled frosting with 2 cups of sugar, 1 cup of water and two egg whites, flavored with lemon, butter and vanilla, or try the light lemon glaze.
• 5 if making the light lemon glaze. mix until mixture is smooth and can be drizzled onto the cake. a boiled icing recipe with two cups of sugar is low fat and a good alternative.
• 6 color sugar crystals (green, purple) by working in a few drops of food coloring and add gold dragées. as soon as the glaze is poured, sprinkle colored stripes on the glaze.
• 7 a tiny china or plastic baby doll or a red bean is inserted underneath before glazing- i put mine in after i bake the roll!
• 8 store the king cakecovered at room temperature- it is really a bread, and dries out in the refrigerator. i use a foodsafe plastic trash bag (small glad).