Juliette’s pastry box no1: braided chocolate-hazelnut brioche

This box contains the ingredients and the instructions necessary to make at home a large, decadent braided brioche filled with chocolate and hazelnut-cocoa spread.

This brioche is inspired by the Babka, a braided holiday cake from Eastern Europe. This version is very, very rich in dark chocolate, and also uses Tartinette; our own cocoa-hazelnut spread made here in Quebec without palm oil.

This box is designed for people who love to bake, want to learn, and want it to be hassle-free and easy. All the ingredients are weighed and numbered, and the recipe is illustrated, yet it is challenging enough that you will learn pastry skills.

This box will teach you to make brioche dough, by mixing it, kneading it, rolling it and making it rise by proofing it using humidity before cooking. You will also learn to stuff your brioche by creating layers of dough and chocolate filling, and to work your dough by braiding it. Once you are familiar with these concepts you will be able to create your own brioche by varying the presentation and the filling.

This box holds :

-10g of dry yeast

-95g of white sugar

-1 vanille bean

-325g bread flour

-325g cake flour

-½ teaspoon of salt

-275g of Tartinette

-270g of dark chocolate chips

-80g of sugar

-4 sheets of parchment paper

-1 recipe card

In addition to the contents of this box, you will need:

250ml/1 cup milk, 2 eggs, 115g /1/2 cup butter.

Time : active 1h, wait 6h, cooking 25 min.

Yield: one 1300g brioche for 12-15 people.

Ingredients: Wheat flour • Tartinette (sugar, canola oil shortening, hazelnuts, skim milk, powder cocoa, soy lecithin, natural vanilla flavor) • Bittersweet chocolate pieces (sugar, unsweetened chocolate, dextrose, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanillin) • Sugar • Yeast (yeast, sorbitan monostearate) • Salt • Vanilla bean. Contains: wheat, hazelnut,

milk, soy. May contain: peanuts and other nuts.