Poor Man's Brioche with a dose of Rich Danish!

We're into our fourth week of Bread Baker's Apprentice (BBA) my weekly bread baking group. And this week the assignment was Brioche. There were three different versions of Brioche to choose from, the difference was in the amount of butter; Rich Man's Brioche with 2 cups of butter, Middle-Class Brioche with 1 cup butter and Poor Man's Brioche with 1/2 cup butter. Since I was not sure if we would like Brioche or not I decided to save the butter and made the Poor Man's Brioche!





To begin with, I made one large, round loaf of Brioche. And a Pastry Sous Chef on Twitter, @niteweng, suggested I make Danish with the remaining dough. The Brioche was good but the Fresh Strawberry Danishes were outstanding!






I've made Danish before and used the same technique with rolling out the dough and layering fresh fruit. Then rolling up the dough and slicing into danish. You can find the technique including a step-by-step here. Caution, this link goes to a post when I first began my blog and well..you'll see a huge difference from then to now. ;)





Google Books has the entire book, "The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread" by Peter Reinhart, scanned and you can find the recipe on Page 123 by clicking here.


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