Bread Machine Brioche Dough /Spanish Roscón De Reyes
Ready In: 2 hrs 10 mins
Serves: 24
Ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup water
- 2 -4 tablespoons butter
- 5 large eggs
- 4 1⁄2 cups bread flour
- 2 -6 tablespoons sugar (use larger amount for king cake)
- 1⁄2 tablespoon ground dried lemon peel
- 3 1⁄2 teaspoons saf yeast
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 tablespoon vital wheat gluten or 1 tablespoon bread enhancer
Cinnamon Filling
- 4 tablespoons butter (optional) or 4 tablespoons margarine, melted (optional)
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 1⁄4 cup flour or 1⁄4 cup oatmeal
Light Lemon glaze
- 2 cups sifted powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon grated fresh lemon rind
- 1 dash salt
- 3 tablespoons hot water
- 2 tablespoons butter
Directions
- The Dough.
- This makes a high-rising, soft but very springy dough. I use the sweet bread, not the dough setting, because it requires two full kneadings and risings before shaping. I take the dough out just before the baking cycle starts, punch it down and flatten it into a long 1" thick, 5" wide rectangle, sprinkle it with the cinnamon streusel or other filling and roll it up, shaping the long roll on a buttered cookie sheet.
- I pinch the ends together to make a full circle. Let rise in a warm place covered by a damp towel for about 50 minutes, then place in a cold oven, turn on to 375 degrees, and bake about 45 minutes until well risen and a deep golden brown.
- The filling: After it cools, glaze generously with a thin, lemony sugar glaze, then sprinkle with colored sugars in stripes. Use a traditional boiled white frosting with 2 cups of sugar, 1 cup of water and two egg whites, flavored with lemon, butter and vanilla, or try the light lemon glaze.
- If making the Light lemon glaze. Mix until mixture is smooth and can be drizzled onto the cake. A boiled icing recipe with two cups of sugar is low fat and a good alternative.
- Color sugar crystals (green, purple) by working in a few drops of food coloring and add gold dragées. As soon as the glaze is poured, sprinkle colored stripes on the glaze.
- A tiny china or plastic baby doll or a red bean is inserted underneath before glazing- I put mine in AFTER I bake the roll!
- Store the king cakecovered at room temperature- it is really a bread, and dries out in the refrigerator. I use a foodsafe plastic trash bag (small white Glad).
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