How to Deal With Ultimate Brioche Failure
What I really wanted to do today was show you an amazing batch of soft, pillowy, sweet brioche rolls that I made according to The Beer Bakery’s excellent recipe for Spiced Orange and Coriander All Butter Brioche. Unfortunately, I’m unable to do that because I completely spooned it. These things happen, especially to me, as you may remember from some of my more disastrous Bake Off Bake Along challenges. I’m not entirely sure what it is specifically that I did wrong. It’s more than likely to be a series of wrongs, as opposed to one small mistake that took down the whole bake. I’ve tried Googling “brioche what went wrong” in a desperate attempt to find out what on earth I might have done, but have found nothing. So I can’t even give you lessons learned to avoid screwing up your own brioche. Useless, aren’t I? It looked as though it was going well in the early stages. My dough was soft, it smelled incredible (thanks to the orange zest, cloves and finely chopped coriander) …