Caffeine Free Bread Machine Brioche
Rich, pillowy, and impossibly tender, this brioche is the kind of bread that makes you feel like a serious baker without needing a professional kitchen. The bread machine does the heavy lifting on kneading, which is genuinely important here — proper butter incorporation takes time and patience, and the machine handles that process beautifully while you go about your day. Butter goes in gradually during the knead cycle, transforming a shaggy, greasy-looking dough into something smooth and supple that practically glows. Every single ingredient in this recipe is naturally free of caffeine, so there's nothing to second-guess or swap out — just wholesome pantry staples coming together into something extraordinary. The three-ball shaping method gives the finished loaf that classic domed crown, and the egg wash bakes up to a deep, glossy chestnut that looks straight out of a Parisian boulangerie window. Sliced warm with salted butter, used for French toast, or layered into a sandwich, this loaf delivers a soft, feathery crumb that store-bought bread simply cannot match. Let it cool the full thirty minutes if you can — the wait is genuinely worth it.
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12 servings
For the dough
- ¼ cup whole milk, warmed to 95–100°f (35–38°c)
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp fine sea salt
- 3 cups bread flour
- 2 ¼ tsp active dry yeast (1 standard packet)
- 10 tbsp unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch cubes, softened
For the egg wash
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tbsp whole milk
Instructions
- 1
Add the ingredients to the bread machine pan in the order your machine's manual specifies (typically liquids first, then dry ingredients, with yeast last and kept away from the salt). Add the warmed milk, then the 3 eggs, sugar, and salt. Add the bread flour on top, then make a small well in the center of the flour and add the yeast.
- 2
Select the Dough cycle on your bread machine and start it. Once the machine has been kneading for about 5 minutes and a shaggy dough has formed, begin adding the softened butter cubes a few at a time through the lid opening, waiting about 30 seconds between additions. The dough will look rough and greasy at first — continue until all the butter is incorporated and the dough is smooth, supple, and pulls away cleanly from the sides of the pan, about 10–12 minutes into the knead cycle.
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