Walnut Free Bread Machine Brioche
Rich, pillowy, and impossibly buttery, this brioche is the kind of bread that makes you feel like a serious baker the moment it comes out of the oven. The bread machine does the heavy lifting on the kneading, which is genuinely the trickiest part of brioche — getting all that softened butter fully incorporated into a smooth, supple dough takes patience, and the machine handles it beautifully. Three dough balls nestled side by side in a loaf pan create that gorgeous, pull-apart crown, and a glossy egg wash gives the finished loaf a deep chestnut color that looks straight out of a French bakery window. For anyone navigating tree nut concerns, this recipe is refreshingly straightforward — every ingredient is a simple pantry or dairy staple, with no nut-based additions hiding anywhere in the dough or finish. Store-bought enriched breads can be a minefield of shared-facility warnings, so baking your own is a genuinely satisfying way to sidestep that stress entirely. Let it cool the full thirty minutes before slicing — the crumb is still setting, and the wait is absolutely worth it for clean, tender slices that hold together perfectly.
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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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