Our favorite and popular simple recipe for delicious sweet brioche bread made from yeast dough with different options – almond bread, raisin bread or classic brioche. Traditional brioche bread recipe for easter breakfast.
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Delicious and traditional recipe for our popular brioche bread recipe as a family recipe for a delicious sweet brioche. Our breakfast bread is traditionally served on our table as Easter bread and tastes great with sweet jam, like our homemade strawberry jam, chocolate spread, cheese, with butter only and of course with hard boiled eggs.
Brioche is French by name but firmly at home in German baking as Hefezopf and sweet Brot. The American equivalent lives mostly in burger buns and holiday breads, which is a shame, because a sliced sweet loaf makes the best French toast you will ever eat.
The dough is rich and slow. Butter goes in after the gluten has developed, a bit at a time, and the dough must stay cool or the butter greases out. A cold overnight rise in the fridge is not optional in a warm American kitchen — it firms the butter, deepens the flavor, and makes the sticky dough actually shapeable. More sweet bakes in our German recipes.
Add the milk and butter to a mixing bowl with the egg until lukewarm.
Add sugar, salt and flour and finally add the dry yeast on top of the flour (it is best to form a small hollow).
If you wish, you can add 200g of raisins or 150g of almond slivers to the dough.
First let mix slowly with the dough hook of the stand mixer and then knead on higher speed until a thoroughly mixed dough is formed.
Now cover bowl with a clean kitchen towel and let rise in a warm draft-proof place (e.g. kitchen cupboard) for about an hour. Start 60 minutes timer here
The dough has now increased in size and can be placed in a greased loaf pan. Gladly you can also take special bread molds.
Bake the Brioche for 30-35 minutes at 200 °C and let it cool for about 10 minutes before removing it from the pan. Start 30 minutes timer here
Nutrition per serving
135kcal
5 gFat
21 gCarbs
3 gProtein
5 gSugar
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Traditional German sweet bread recipe
The finished breakfast bread also tastes very good if you change to healthier spelt flour instead of wheat flour. If you choose the breakfast bread variant with almonds or raisins, the actual nutritional values will of course change slightly due to the additional ingredients.
Backing instructions for the sweet brioche bread recipe
Place warm fluffy butter in a mixing bowl with lukewarm milk and one egg.
Add sugar, (raisins or almond slivers if desired), salt and flour and finally add yeast to the dry flour.
Now let knead slowly at first with the food processor (alternatively hand mixer) and then knead faster until a uniform dough is formed.
Now cover bowl with a fresh kitchen towel and let rise in a warm place for about an hour.
Now put dough into a greased loaf pan and bake for about 30-35 minutes at 200 degrees top and bottom heat.
Afterwards, let breakfast bread cool briefly and remove from the pan to let it cool further.
Variations of our Brioche bread recipe as sweet bread
Simple recipe and basic recipe for a sweet Brioche bread recipe with different variations if you like. Depending on your taste, we like to bake the basic dough with almonds or raisins, so that you have 3 different brioche breads to choose from at the breakfast table. However, the very classic and traditional simple slightly sweet Brioche bread recipe has proven to be the best.
For me, the home-baked breakfast breads are still the beautiful variant – not to be compared with a breakfast in a hotel. Of course you have a wide choice in a hotel and often there is a bakery that a hotel works with, but nothing beats freshly baked bread where you know exactly what ingredients are in the bread.
The nice thing about this brioche bread recipe compared to our other brioche bread recipe is that the breakfast bread brings a bit more firmness with it, so depending on the thickness of the slice, you can very well take hard-boiled eggs as a topping, which is often not the case with a soft and fluffy brioche bread.
For us, the brioche bread recipe result belongs on the breakfast table and may also be eaten with a savory fresh wholemeal bread as a balance. This simple yeast dough always succeeds (even for beginners), if you follow the short instructions.
Best Easter bread recipe
We’ve since tweaked our classic Brioche as a sweet breakfast bread for the special holidays, and we don’t want to deprive you of the icing version. We were cautiously optimistic at first about how this sweet version would go down with the family, but the frosting was loved combined with fresh ground pork and boiled eggs. Therefore, you would definitely have to check out the variation and so once again you see more pictures of this Brioche recipe.
You can also prepare the dough from the breakfast bread the night before, so in the morning you just put the breakfast bread in the oven and after 30 minutes plus cooling time, the bread is ready. However, the Brioche also keeps very well if you wrap it in aluminum foil and bake it already in the evening. Even pre-cut slices do not dry out much, so we can eat about 3 days of the breakfast bread. In the evening, we also like to have the bread just spread with butter as a “dinner”.
To let the dough rise, we use a quiet place in the kitchen cupboard, if possible, or the oven is heated to just below 50 degrees and then turned off before the bowl is put in to rise.
If you like the Brioche even fluffier, you can simply add another egg to the dough. We find on our breakfast table, however, the variant with one egg best.
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Great recipe, the bread has a wonderful texture and tastes great.
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VVanessaTeam2 years ago
Thank you so much for the kind words, Julia.
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MMelody H.2 years ago
unbelievable! I’m in love with this bread recipe – sweet but not too sweet, like from the supermarket. I’ve already baked it 3 times and there’s usually nothing left over for my family on a Sunday! So glad you’re sharing recipes like this from Germany and Europe!
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MMyGermanBakeryTeam2 years ago
Thank you so much Melody! I will share more of these recipes in the near future!
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MMarkus H.2 years ago
Such a great recipe! The bread stays moist and tastes fantastic.
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VVanessaTeam2 years ago
Thank you so much for your feedback, Markus.
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VValentina K.1 year ago
Amazing sweet bread, really light and delicious! I made it with less yeast and it turned out great. What’s the best way to keep it fresh without it drying out? Merry Christmas and happy New Year!
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VVanessaTeam1 year ago
That’s great that it worked out with less yeast, Valentina. You can store the bread in a bread basket, a cloth bread bag, a freezer bag, or aluminum foil, and keep it in the cupboard or fridge to stay fresh. You can also freeze it right away and just let it thaw overnight whenever you need it. All the best in the new year!
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LLena H.2 years ago
So delicious! I baked it in a different pan (a regular rectangular one) though, since I didn’t have a pretty one like yours. Would you mind telling me where you bought your pan?
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MMyGermanBakeryTeam2 years ago
Hi Lena,
The pan is from the biggest online retailer out there. I couldn’t find it there anymore when I looked just now, though. I bought mine about 3 years ago. If I come across it again, I’ll add it to the post.
Best,
Vanessa
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VVanessaTeam1 year ago
Hi Lena,
the baking pan is available again, and I’ve gone back and added it to the recipe. You can find the pan here: https://www.einfacherezepte.tv/link/hefezopf-backform
Have fun with it!
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AAlan2 years ago
Thank you for sharing this recipe with our family. It was wonderful
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MMyGermanBakeryTeam2 years ago
Thank you Alan for your feedback
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KKatrin1 year ago
Fantastic sweet bread, nice and light and perfect for making an ordinary day feel special!
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VVanessaTeam1 year ago
Thanks so much for the kind words, Katrin.
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EElisabeth1 year ago
Turned out great, the bread is soft and tasty. Tip: it’s lovely with a little honey! Wonderful aroma!
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VVanessaTeam1 year ago
Whether honey in the dough or spread on top of the bread, I can picture both working, but you’d probably want to cut back on the sugar a bit if you don’t like it super sweet? Thanks for the tip, Elisabeth.
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SSabine1 year ago
Great recipe, the bread is soft and a real treat for breakfast!
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VVanessaTeam1 year ago
Thank you, Sabine!
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AAnneliese B.2 years ago
This recipe is top notch! The bread came out airy and has a wonderful flavor. I tried it with a little butter — simply heavenly. The steps are clearly explained, and it was easier than I thought. Next time I might test it with nuts!
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VVanessaTeam2 years ago
Thanks for your feedback, Annelise. We’ve baked this sweet bread with chopped almonds plenty of times, and it works really well. Have fun baking!
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Great recipe, the bread has a wonderful texture and tastes great.
Thank you so much for the kind words, Julia.
unbelievable! I’m in love with this bread recipe – sweet but not too sweet, like from the supermarket. I’ve already baked it 3 times and there’s usually nothing left over for my family on a Sunday! So glad you’re sharing recipes like this from Germany and Europe!
Thank you so much Melody! I will share more of these recipes in the near future!
Such a great recipe! The bread stays moist and tastes fantastic.
Thank you so much for your feedback, Markus.
Amazing sweet bread, really light and delicious! I made it with less yeast and it turned out great. What’s the best way to keep it fresh without it drying out? Merry Christmas and happy New Year!
That’s great that it worked out with less yeast, Valentina. You can store the bread in a bread basket, a cloth bread bag, a freezer bag, or aluminum foil, and keep it in the cupboard or fridge to stay fresh. You can also freeze it right away and just let it thaw overnight whenever you need it. All the best in the new year!
So delicious! I baked it in a different pan (a regular rectangular one) though, since I didn’t have a pretty one like yours. Would you mind telling me where you bought your pan?
Hi Lena,
The pan is from the biggest online retailer out there. I couldn’t find it there anymore when I looked just now, though. I bought mine about 3 years ago. If I come across it again, I’ll add it to the post.
Best,
Vanessa
Hi Lena,
the baking pan is available again, and I’ve gone back and added it to the recipe. You can find the pan here: https://www.einfacherezepte.tv/link/hefezopf-backform
Have fun with it!
Thank you for sharing this recipe with our family. It was wonderful
Thank you Alan for your feedback
Fantastic sweet bread, nice and light and perfect for making an ordinary day feel special!
Thanks so much for the kind words, Katrin.
Turned out great, the bread is soft and tasty. Tip: it’s lovely with a little honey! Wonderful aroma!
Whether honey in the dough or spread on top of the bread, I can picture both working, but you’d probably want to cut back on the sugar a bit if you don’t like it super sweet? Thanks for the tip, Elisabeth.
Great recipe, the bread is soft and a real treat for breakfast!
Thank you, Sabine!
This recipe is top notch! The bread came out airy and has a wonderful flavor. I tried it with a little butter — simply heavenly. The steps are clearly explained, and it was easier than I thought. Next time I might test it with nuts!
Thanks for your feedback, Annelise. We’ve baked this sweet bread with chopped almonds plenty of times, and it works really well. Have fun baking!