Cinnamon Crunch Braided Brioche Bread

Ingredients

    1/2 cup warm water
    3 teaspoons yeast
    1 1/2 teaspoons salt
    3 tablespoon sugar
    3 cups flour
    3 eggs
    12 tablespoons butter melted

Cinnamon Sugar Coating

    1/2 cup butter melted
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    1 cup brown sugar
    2 teaspoons cinnamon

Streusel Topping

    1/4 cup brown sugar
    1 tablespoon butter cold
    1 teaspoon cinnamon
    2 tablespoons chopped pecans optional

Instructions

• mix heat water, yeast, salt and sugar in an exceedingly giant mixer bowl and blend on low speed till incorporated. Add eggs and unfrozen butter and blend till combined. step by step combine within the flour till the dough comes along. take away the dough from the bowl and place on a gently floured surface. Grease an outsized bowl and add the dough to the bowl. cowl the bowl with wrapper and let sit 1-2 hours or till the dough has doubled in size.

• Once the dough has doubled in size place the bowl within the electric refrigerator long or up to five days. once able to bake the bread take away the dough and let sit at temperature for quarter-hour.

• within the in the meantime gather the ingredients for the Cinnamon Sugar Coating. Add the 1/2 cup unfrozen butter to an outsized shallow bowl, stir within the vanilla.

• In another medium size bowl mix the one cup refined sugar with two teaspoons cinnamon. Mix well.

• Grease a loaf pan and sprinkle the within of the loaf pan with the Cinnamon Sugar Coating.

• Sprinkle the dough with flour and take 3 equal items. fastidiously roll every bit into a 12-inch rope.

• currently take every rope and dip it through the butter, then munificently sprinkle every rope with the Cinnamon Sugar Coating. currently gently roll every rope within the remaining coating that has gathered round the rope on your surface. I used most of my cinnamon sugar for this.

• to form the braid, begin at one finish and pinch the ends of the rope along. Bring the correct outside rope over the middle rope; that rope currently becomes the middle. Bring the left outside rope over the new center rope; that rope currently becomes the middle. Continue braid till you reach the top. Pinch the ropes along to seal.

• fastidiously elevate the braid and place it within the lubricated and sugary loaf pan. cowl the pan with wrapper and let rise in an exceedingly heat draft free space another 1-2 hours, or till double in size. concerning twenty minutes before you're able to bake the bread heat the kitchen appliance to 350 degrees F.

• build the streusel. in an exceedingly bowl add the refined sugar, butter, cinnamon and pecans. victimisation your hands work the butter into the sugar till the mixture resembles little peas.

• Place the loaf on a baking sheet and and sprinkle the streusel overlook. Bake in an exceedingly preheated 350 degree F kitchen appliance for forty five to fifty five minutes, inhabitancy with foil once fifteen to twenty. Cool within the pan for ten minutes so fastidiously flip the bread out of pan to chill utterly before slicing. If a number of the streusel falls off, simply place it back on the loaf.