Black Brioche Buns

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5 from 1 vote

These make for a fancy looking bun, perfect for entertaining

Recipe Category: Bread

Makes enough for: batch buns

Ingredients

475 g flour, plus extra for dusting
28 g fructose
10 g activated charcoal, crushed to a powder
6 g instant dried yeast
75 g salted butter
2 eggs
200 mls water
50 mls milk
oil for greasing
1 egg white, slackened
5 mls black cumin seeds

Method

Place the flour, fructose, charcoal and yeast into a stand mixer bowl
Using a dough hook, mix the ingredients for 30 seconds to combine
Add the butter and mix until the ingredients resemble bread crumbs
Keeping the speed low, add the eggs, water and milk
Once completely combined, knead for 10 minutes
Cover the bowl with cling film and leave to prove until doubled in size
Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and gently knock bag
Divide the dough into 75g pieces, and roll each one out into a ball
Place each ball onto a lined baking tray and cover with lightly oiled cling film
Set aside to prove until doubled in size
Preheat the oven to 180° Celsius
Brush each bun with egg white and sprinkle the cumin seeds on top
Bake for 20 minutes, remove from the oven and set aside to cool on a wire rack

Notes

I have made these using my bread maker with great success. Add all the ingredients into the container, set the machine to dough/bread and then continue from the knocking back instruction