Brioche Success!

The second instalment from my French cookery extravaganza was La brioche aux praline de Josephine and my goodness was it a success!

It rose beautifully, baked well and tasted amazing. I've never made a brioche cake/bread before and I was pleasantly surprised how well this attempt turned out. It wasn't a quick process, once the dough was made, its spent a day and a night in the fridge in the end (it should have only had a night), then it was rolled out, folded and re-rolled a few times. Next the filling was added and the dough was  rolled into a sausage, chopped up then left for a further 3-4 hours to rise somewhere warm. But it was totally worth it...

For the filling I used a bar of dark chocolate with fruit and nuts in which I crushed up then sprinkled on the flat dough before rolling it into a sausage, this was a lovely almost-healthy-filling..... The recipe asked for pralines however I couldn't find a translation that really explained what this was so we improvised with chocolate!

Most importantly... the bake was so good there wasn't a soggy bottom in sight and with friends round for dinner it also didn't last long.