Brioche Buns
If you're new to bread baking, this beginner-friendly brioche recipe is the perfect introduction. Buttery, soft, and beautifully golden, it looks and tastes like it came straight from a French bakery.
If you want these as hamburger style buns add only 15g sugar and the rest of the recipe as shown, divide the dough into 8 and place on a rectangular tray about 1 inch away from each other, brush with egg wash before cooking and skip the icing sugar.
If you want chocolate chip brioche mix 100g small chocolate chips into the mixture when you add the flour and do the rest of the recipe as shown.
Brioche Buns
Cooking time
17 min
Prep time
30 min
Resting time
90 min
Ingredients
- 120 g lukewarm water (35–40 °C)
- 7 g instant yeast
- 30 g sugar
- 50 g salted butter, melted
- 100 g milk
- 350 g bread/strong flour
- ½ tsp salt
- Butter for greasing and topping
- Icing sugar for topping
Instructions
Mix water with the yeast and then mix in the sugar. Add melted butter & milk, mix, then add flour and salt and mix till combined.
Using a dough scraper or spatula, scrape down the sides and fold the dough over itself (about 20 times on each side). Flip the dough, cover, and rest in the warmest place for an hour.
Grease a tin really well (9" round cake tin or similar). De-gas your dough and cut in half. Rip off 2"-square pieces, fold inwards to form balls. Arrange snugly in the tin (I used 8 larger on the outside + 6 smaller inside.)
Cover and rest for 30 min while your oven heats to 175 °C. Then tuck slivers of butter between the rolls (without puncturing).
Bake for 17–19 min—don’t let the outside get too crunchy. For more savory burger buns, see notes above.
Once cooled ~15 min, dust with icing sugar and enjoy!
— D 🫶
Brioche Buns
Resting time
90 min
Cooking time
17 min
Prep Time
30 min
Ingredients
120g lukewarm water (35-40°c)
7g instant yeast
30g sugar
50g salted butter melted
100g milk
350g Bread / Strong Flour
1/2 tsp salt
Butter for greasing and topping
Icing sugar for topping
InstruCtions
Mix water with the yeast and then mix in the sugar, add melted butter & milk, mix followed by flour and salt and mix till combined.
Using a dough scraper or spatula scrape down the sides and fold the dough over itself as shown in the video. About 20 times in each side. Flip the dough over again when finished and cover and rest in warmest place for an hour or so.
Grease a tin really really well, I used a round cake tin (9 inches) but you could also use a rectangular or square dish.
Decompress your dough and cut in half. Rip off small pieces of dough about 2inch squared and fold inwards to create a circle shape. You can adjust the size as you go to get them to an equal size as explained in video. I did 8 larger sized around the outside and 6 smaller ones but you can do anything style you want and all the same size just make sure your dish isn’t too big as you want them quite snug inside.
Cover and rest for 30 min while your oven heats up to 175C
Once ready cut some slithers of butter and gently place in between the rolls (careful not to puncture the risen dough)
Bake for 17-19 min you don’t want the outside too crunchy. If you want these as more savoury burger buns see notes at the top.
Once cooled for about 15 min sprinkle with icing sugar and enjoy!
D 🫶