Chocolate Brioche

All sudden I in the good mood to make a bread, yaaa .. bread .. !! especially sweet bread - mostly people call 'sweet bun'. I've been tried several recipes , from a simply recipes, medium , until machine bread. But none of them come good .. aarrg.. !!

Do you think I'm tired to try ? he..he..he , not at all ..

Yesterday, I made a chocolate-brioche , it came good . My husband like it. But I still want try another recipes, so please if somebody has a great..great sweet bun recipes, share with me .. I would like to try and prove it that I can make too ^_^

Talk about 'SHARE' , I remember that one of my blogger friend, Lubna from Kitchen Flavours who share her's nice stuff to me ! yes, she gave me so many awards this week. OMG .. !! I'm so honoured, thank you dear Lubna - I'm so proud to put all your awards here, at my home "RUMAH MANIS"

And now let me share my chocolate brioche recipes to all my friends *well, I wish all of you can come and enjoyed a cup of tea and snack and chit chat at my backyard porch* :-)

Chocolate Brioche

Source : Hubert Keller-William Sonoma

For the sponge:
2 tsp. active dry yeast
3 Tbs. lukewarm water
3 Tbs. all-purpose flour

For the dough:
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more as needed
3 Tbs. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1 egg
1/3 cup warm milk
4 Tbs. (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, cut into pieces, at room temperature
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 egg yolk, lightly beaten with 1 tsp. water

Directions:
To make the sponge, in a bowl, dissolve the yeast in the water.

Stir in the flour, cover with plastic wrap and set in a warm place until foamy, about 10 minutes.

To make the dough, in the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the 1 3⁄4 cups flour, the sugar and salt and whisk by hand until well blended, about 1 minute.

Transfer the bowl to the mixer and attach the dough hook. With the mixer on low speed, add the egg and milk. Increase the speed to medium and knead for 5 minutes.

Add the butter and knead for 5 minutes. Stop the mixer and add the sponge.

Continue kneading on medium speed until the dough is smooth and elastic, 7 to 10 minutes, adding more flour as needed.

Cover the bowl with a towel and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.

Preheat an oven to 400ºF.

Punch down the dough, transfer to a lightly floured surface

Form the dough into 18 balls, put chocolate inside of dough and place in the prepared wells .

Let rise in a warm place for 45 minutes.

Brush the tops of the brioches with the egg yolk mixture.

Bake until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes.

Brush brioche with melted butter . Let cool completely before serving.

Note :

Here.. let me show you one of my brioche mold that I have . But don't worry even you don't have a specific mold, you still can make a nice shape brioche as you wish, use cupcake mold that will work too.