Ingredients
Brioche dough
- 170 g full cream milk, tepid
- 10 g sugar
- 10 g dried yeast
- 500 g bakers flour
- 10 g salt
- 3 eggs, jumbo (800g per doz)
- 95 g unsalted butter, 5mm cubed @ room temperature
Filling
- 65 g castor sugar
- 450 g ricotta cheese, (optionally 400g Ricotta & 50g Mascarpone)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 bottle morello cherries, (1 cup cherries drained and pitted)
Royal Icing
- 100 g white sugar
- 2 tbsp egg white, (save the balance for eggwash)
- 1 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
To dress
- 1 tbsp water beaten with egg for eggwash
- 20 fresh cherries
Accessories you need
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Spatula TM5/TM6
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Add milk to TM bowl and heat 37C for 2 min speed 1
Add yeast and sugar, Mix 5 sec Speed 1
Add Flour, eggs, salt, Mix 5 sec Speed 7
Knead for 6 – 7.5min adding butter bit by bit. It is important to add butter gradually
Tip Dough into an oiled large plastic bowl/container and allow dough to double for at least 1 hour
Add sugar to bowl (castor sugar grind 3 sec speed 10)
Add Cheese, vanilla extract and mix 7 sec speed 3
Add Morello cherries and mix with spatula
Preheat Oven to 200C / 180C fan forced
Lightly flour 2 overlapping pieces of baking paper to fit baking tray
Tip risen dough onto floured baking paper. Without knocking back, pat the dough into a rectangle approx. 24 x 40 cm. Mark 3 columns down the length of dough.
Place filling in the middle column
Slice the columns on either side in 1.5cm slices @ 50degree angle
Fold end over filling and then braid the sides alternately.
Fold end over and seal the ends
Form a wreath by slowly bringing the ends together and pinch dough together to join
Allow to rise for 15-20 mins
Brush with egg wash
Bake for 30 mins until golden
Allow to cool on wire rack
Add sugar to mixing bowl and mill 30 sec speed 9
Add remaining ingredients and mix 5 sec speed 7
Pour icing into ziplock bag, snip off tiny corner
Drizzle icing over plaited wreath
Decorate with fresh cherries
Brioche dough
Filling
Brioche braid
Icing & decorate
Thermomix Model
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Recipe is created forTM 31
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Comments
This will definatly be on our list for Christmas ( as well as in between ) It was a huge hit in our family. Only problem was it dissapeared way too quickly
Thanks for sharing your recipie!!!!!!
Wow, awesome!