Dorie Greenspan, You Goddess!

My family has been loving Dorie’s recipe for brioche that was printed in Bon Appetit last month.  The recipe is easy to follow and though time-consuming, leaves lots of time for dancing – be sure to have your iPod handy while preparing the dough. 

This morning, I got started on my prep a little later than I should have.  I also forgot to put the dough in the fridge after the first punching.  Let’s just say that I wasn’t playing my “A Game” today.  Here’s how it went down:

• Kings of Leon and I prepared the dough perfectly and set aside to rise ~  Between mixings, I whipped 1/2 cup of butter with a tbsp heavy cream and 3 tbsp organic honey and popped it back into the fridge
• 90 minutes later, worked dough, allowing it to fold over onto itself
• OOPS ~ should have put into fridge – didn’t
• 60-ish minutes later realized my mistake.  Worked dough, wrapped in plastic wrap, put in fridge
• OOPS ~ forgot
• 2 hours later (not 16 hours later) pulled dough from fridge

WHAT WAS I THINKING?

• Cut dough into 12 pieces and placed each in muffin pan
• 60 minutes later – into the oven …

If you think they look good from the outside, you should have seen the inside.  I would love to show you the angel-feather-perfection-cottoncandy-wonderfulness, but they were gone in a hot minute. 

I knew the recipe was great, but not great enough to withstand mistake after mistake and still turn out absolutely luscious bread.  

Dorie Greenspan ~ you are truly divine! 

Readers ~ if you aren’t making this, you are truly insane!

BRIOCHE BUBBLETOP RECIPE

Cookbooks by Dorie Greenspan