Baking & Pastry Project #20 - Cracquelin What do you do with a growing 13 year old? Well...actually not that much.
Our son would get up in the morning, eat off and on for about an hour. Then he'd sit down to read a book and fall asleep. Or he'd be playing Sins of a Solar Empire on his laptop and fall asleep with his head on his elbow. He was sleeping at night...well except for those periods when he'd get up and wipe out the left over pizza or roast chicken.
He just about slept through August.
On Friday, he woke up full of energy. He barreled into the kitchen and announced that he felt different, not like himself at all. I went over to give him a hug and discovered I had to look up to see his eyes. This calls for a new height check. He's two inches taller than he was when we measured him in July.
He's now 5'7" and taller than me.
One night while my husband and I were trading bad narcolepsy jokes, I made this loaf of craquelin. It turned out beautifully, although it had a large air pocket in the middle. As the bread cooled the X collapsed into the center of the air pocket.
This loaf wasn't our favorite. None of us enjoyed the craquelin bread, although we all liked the crusty brioche on the outside. We weren't crazy about the not quite dissolved sugar cubes in the bread. Our loaf ended up getting taken apart and the brioche crust disappeared quickly.
Recipe
Craquelin 284 g
Brioche Dough
70 g Sugar Cubes
5 g Lemon Zest, grated
Brioche 516 g
Brioche Dough
Craquelin Dough
In a large bowl, mix the brioche dough along with the sugar cubes and lemon zest. Work the dough just until the sugar cubes are incorporated. Shape the dough into a ball.
Brioche Dough
Mix the brioche dough according to the recipe found
here.
Putting It Together
1. Coat the inside of a panettone wrapper with vegetable shortening. Then coat the shortening with rice flour, tap it around the bottom and sides. Tap the excess out of the wrapper.
2. Sprinkle sweet rice flour over a sheet of parchment paper. Roll the brioche dough into a 6 "/15 cm circle. Then wrap it around the craquelin dough ball. Gather the edges together at the bottom to form a boule. Place the loaf seam side down into the prepared panettone wrapper.
3. Allow the dough to rise in a warm location for 2 to 3 hours. After it has finished rising score the top of the loaf with a knife into an X.
4. Place a bowl of water in an oven proof pan or bowl into the oven. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit/191 degrees Celsius. Place the bread into the oven and bake until the crust is golden brown, about 40 to 50 minutes. Cool completely on a rack before serving.
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Baking & Pastry Project #20 - Cracquelin
What do you do with a growing 13 year old? Well...actually not that much.
Our son would get up in the morning, eat off and on for about an hour. Then he'd sit down to read a book and fall asleep. Or he'd be playing Sins of a Solar Empire on his laptop and fall asleep with his head on his elbow. He was sleeping at night...well except for those periods when he'd get up and wipe out the left over pizza or roast chicken.
He just about slept through August.
On Friday, he woke up full of energy. He barreled into the kitchen and announced that he felt different, not like himself at all. I went over to give him a hug and discovered I had to look up to see his eyes. This calls for a new height check. He's two inches taller than he was when we measured him in July.
He's now 5'7" and taller than me.
One night while my husband and I were trading bad narcolepsy jokes, I made this loaf of craquelin. It turned out beautifully, although it had a large air pocket in the middle. As the bread cooled the X collapsed into the center of the air pocket.
This loaf wasn't our favorite. None of us enjoyed the craquelin bread, although we all liked the crusty brioche on the outside. We weren't crazy about the not quite dissolved sugar cubes in the bread. Our loaf ended up getting taken apart and the brioche crust disappeared quickly.
Craquelin
284 g Brioche Dough
70 g Sugar Cubes
5 g Lemon Zest, grated
Brioche
516 g Brioche Dough
Craquelin Dough
In a large bowl, mix the brioche dough along with the sugar cubes and lemon zest. Work the dough just until the sugar cubes are incorporated. Shape the dough into a ball.
Brioche Dough
Mix the brioche dough according to the recipe found here.
Putting It Together
1. Coat the inside of a panettone wrapper with vegetable shortening. Then coat the shortening with rice flour, tap it around the bottom and sides. Tap the excess out of the wrapper.
2. Sprinkle sweet rice flour over a sheet of parchment paper. Roll the brioche dough into a 6 "/15 cm circle. Then wrap it around the craquelin dough ball. Gather the edges together at the bottom to form a boule. Place the loaf seam side down into the prepared panettone wrapper.
3. Allow the dough to rise in a warm location for 2 to 3 hours. After it has finished rising score the top of the loaf with a knife into an X.
4. Place a bowl of water in an oven proof pan or bowl into the oven. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit/191 degrees Celsius. Place the bread into the oven and bake until the crust is golden brown, about 40 to 50 minutes. Cool completely on a rack before serving.