Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Brioche
- 2 cups flour half T45, half T55
- 5/8 cup eggs
- 2 3/8 tablespoons sugar
- 1/8 tablespoon salt
- 7/8 tablespoon fresh yeast
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- sugar grains
- chocolate chips
- 1 egg
- powdered sugar
- red food coloring
- Pour the sifted flour into the bowl of a food processor. Add sugar, salt, and fresh, crumbled yeast.
- Add the eggs, and mix at medium speed for 10 minutes using the food processor's dough blade.
- Add the softened butter all at once and continue to mix with the dough blade for about 5 minutes. Stop, scrape the sides of the bowl and bring the dough to the center. Continue to mix for 5 minutes. The dough should pull away from the sides of the bowl.
- When ready, let the dough rise for 1 hour at room temperature.
- Punch down the dough and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Deflate the dough and cut into eight 55 gram pieces and eight 10 gram pieces.
- Fashion your little Rudolphs, making oval balls, 55 gram pieces, for the heads, and 10 gram pieces for a small nose and two horns each.
- To assemble, cut the reindeer antlers with scissors. The nose will be attached after being cooked.
- Place chocolate chip eyes on each Rudolph and sugar grains on the antlers.
- Glaze with the egg.
- Let rest from 30 minutes to 1 hour at room temperature.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Glaze again and bake for 15 minutes (depending on the oven, so monitor closely)
- Once cooled, prepare the red icing.
- Beat a small amount of egg white with powdered sugar (it takes very little egg white, consistency should be quite thick) add the red food coloring and stir.
- Dip the noses in the red frosting, and let dry on a rack.
- Once dry, glue them to the heads with remaining frosting.
flour, eggs, sugar, salt, fresh yeast, butter, sugar, chocolate chips, egg, powdered sugar, red food coloring
Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Rudolph_-the-Red-Nosed-Reindeer_-Brioche-2043142 (may not work)