Berlin Brioche

Total Time: 1 hr 54 mins Preparation Time: 24 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 250 g self-raising flour
• 6 g yeast
• 1/2 glass milk (warm)
• 90 g butter (melted)
• 3 eggs
• 50 g almonds (blanched sweet)
• 1 drop bitter almond extract
• 100 g raisins
• 1 teaspoon orange zest
• 1 pinch cinnamon (grated)
• 1 pinch nutmeg (grated)

Recipe

• 1 the evening before you want to make these, prepare the dough, mix the yeast into 1/3 of the milk and add 50g flour.
• 2 cover and leave in a warm place until mixture has doubled it's volume.
• 3 mix the rest of the flour and milk in a large bowl.
• 4 whisk eggs until they are warm, in a bowl over a pan of boiling water
• 5 add the melted butter to your mix.
• 6 take half of this mixture and add it to the flour and mix well.
• 7 add other half of the mixture and work for at least 10 minutes, until very light.
• 8 add the dough to the mixture and work for 10 more minutes.
• 9 mix in half of the blanched almonds, raisins, orange zest and spices.
• 10 cover bowl with a dry cloth and leave to rise overnight.
• 11 the following day, grease cake tin, sprinkle with remaining almonds, spoon in mixture until 3/4 full.
• 12 leave to rise for a further hour and cook in preheated oven at 325°f (160°c).
• 13 serve cold.