Brioche: A Sweet French Classic

The brioche is a rich, soft, and slightly sweet bread that originates from France. There are over 30 types of brioche in France alone, including Brioche Parisienne, Brioche Nanterre, Brioche De Metz, Brioche Chinois, Brioche De Saint-Genix, Brioche Vendéenne, and Brioche Tropézienne.

So, what is brioche really? Brioche is a pastry and a delectable sweet bakery items traditionally made with butter and eggs that gives it a rich, slightly sweet and buttery flavor. It is recommended to mix slowly and for a long time before adding the fat. This creates the specific, soft and melting  texture of the brioche. For industrial production, reducing fermentation time—necessary due to large quantities of butter and sugar—can be managed using pre-fermented dough.

Most popular variations

🍫 Chocolate brioche: Rich and indulgent, made with cocoa powder for a deep chocolate flavor.

🥯 Brioche bagel: Soft and slightly sweet bagels with the tender crumb of brioche.

🥐 Croissant brioche: A hybrid combining the flaky layers of a croissant with the richness of brioche

🍬 Brioche praline: Also called Saint Genix, this type of delightful brioche is adorned with iconic pink pralines that originated in Lyon.

🍞 Sourdough brioche: Adds a tangy twist using sourdough starter for a unique flavor.

🌱 Vegan brioche: Made with plant-based ingredients for a dairy-free and egg-free option

🥖 Brioche baguette: Elongated brioche loaves, perfect for sandwiches or as an accompaniment to meals

🧁 Cinnamon brioche bread: Aromatic and sweet, infused with cinnamon and sometimes topped with icing.

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Ingredients for every Brioche
Easy Brioche
Easy Brioche is one mix for many applications. A convenient mix to make soft and sweet breads with incredible freshness and texture. A new kind of innovation from Puratos that offers versatility, easy-of-use, cost savings and freshness!
Sapore Fidelio
Sapore constitutes a range of sourdough and other solutions based on fermentation that offer a natural, traditional and differentiating taste and structure to finished baked products.
Sunset Glaze
The perfect alternative to traditional egg-washes: it is safe, easy and cost-efficient. Stored at ambient temperature until opened.
Sapore Traviata
A typical French sourdough with a subtle nose of rye, nuts and raisins that contribute to the milky and fine acidic flavour. Powder format.
Cremfil Silk Vanilla
Cremfil Silk Vanilla is a smooth and creamy filling with hints of dairy and an authentic vanilla taste profile made with natural flavours and colours.Excellent bake and freeze/thaw stability as well as a silky texture and a clean cut. No artificial flavours or colours.
Quickstep Croissant CL
La gamme d’améliorants Puratos pour pains congelés comprend notamment les produits Quick Step et Kimo.
Cremfil Silk Key Lime
A silky smooth key lime filling with the perfect balance oftartness, sweetness and citrus flavour. No artificial colours no artificial flavours
Carat Coverlux Milk
Milk chocolate hard coating perfect for making fudge, enrobing, dipping, decorating and much more. Carat Coverlux Milk is light in colour with a smooth and milky taste.
Multec Data
Multec Data is a dough-conditioner typically used in bread-type products.
Carat Decorcrem White
White compound chocolate specifically designed for decorating or enrobingsoft products. It sets at room temperature and gives a very clean cut.
Soft'R Alpaga
An improver for the production of soft breads and buns on automatic lines.
Cremfil Chocolate
An all purpose dark chocolate flavoured filling with a rich chocolate flavour.
Cremfil Lemon
An all purpose lemon filling made with real lemon juice.
Topfil
Topfil is a range of delicious fruit fillings with up to 90% fruit content for enhanced taste, texture and natural visual appeal.
Purasauer
A concentrated flavour made from natural dehydrated sourdough of rye.
Extendo
Extendo is a inactive yeast with high reducing power and imparts minimal yeast flavor. It is especially recommended to increase extensibility of your dough.
Topfil Choice Raspberry
Topfil Choice Raspberry is made with 20% raspberry and is a ready-to-use filling for toppings and fillings for pastries
Deli Lemon Curd
Our Deli Lemon Curd is based on a traditional English recipe that is made with real ingredients using fresh eggs, lemon juice and lemon puree. It is a Deli(ciously) authentic recipe bursting with bold flavour and has a creamy, rich texture.
Topfil Choice Strawberry
Topfil Choice Strawberry contains 30% strawberry and is a ready-to-use filling for toppings and fillings for pastries.
Richmond White Wafers
A smooth white compound wafer, offering a deliciously rich and decadent flavor.
Deli Meringue
A ready-to-whip Italian-style meringue that can be applied to many applications as a decorative topping.
Intens Gluten Replacer
This powdered modular solution allows you to reduce or replace the gluten in a bakery recipe, and to reduce your costs. The gluten content can be reduced by up to 3% on flour weight for some bakery applications.
Carat Decorcrem Dark
Dark compound chocolate specifically designed for decorating or enrobing soft products. It sets at room temperature and gives a very clean cut.
Deli Butter Tart
Ready-to-use butter tart filling consisting of sugar, eggs, and butter, which can be used in pre-bake and post-baked applications.
Topfil Plus Diced Apple EZ-Pack
Topfil Plus Diced Apple EZ-Pack contains 50% apple and is a ready-to-use filling for toppings and fillings for pastries, coming in a very convenient 1kg pack.
Topfil Plus Strawberry EZ Pack
Topfil Plus Strawberry EZ Pack contains 40% strawberry and is a ready-to-use filling for toppings and fillings for pastries, coming in a very convenient 1kg pack.
S500 Industrial CL
A premium clean label (CL) multipurpose improver with great volume, dough tolerance for the automated production of all types of breads and rolls.
Topfil Plus Cherry EZ Pack
Topfil Plus Cherry contains 40% cherry and is a ready-to-use filling for toppings and fillings for pastries, coming in a very convenient 1kg pack.
Intens Flatbread Pliability
This powdered modulare solutions is designed for flatbreads; it improves the folding and pliability of these type of breads while avoiding cracking,
Cremfil Zesty Lemon EZ Pack
Cremfil is a range of ready-to-use cream fillings especially designed for bakery and patisserie goods.
Multec MS 1250
Multec emulsifiers improve the aspect, texture and overall quality of bakery and patisserie products.
Carat Coverlux Dark
Dark chocolate hard coating perfect for making fudge, enrobing, dipping,decorating and much more. Carat Coverlux Dark is dark in colour with a richand decadent chocolate flavour.
Topfil Plus Strawberry Rhubarb
Topfil Plus Strawberry Rhubarb contains 40% strawberry rhubarb and is a ready-to-use filling for toppings and fillings for pastries
Belgian Pure Ganache
A ready-to-use ganache for filling, enrobing and making truffles. Made in Canada using Belcolade Real Belgian Chocolate.
Intens Resilience
This modular solutions enhances the resilience of soft bakery products to retain their original shape after compression.
Cremfil Ultim Dark 20-80
An emulsified chocolate filling made with real Belgian chocolate. No hydrogenated fats. No artificial flavours or colours.
Richmond Dark Wafers
Rich dark compound wafers, designed to be easily melted, molded, and incorporated into your favorite recipes.
Topfil Plus Cherry
Topfil Plus Cherry contains 40% cherry and is a ready-to-use filling for toppings and fillings for pastries
Intens Extensibility
This modulare solutions is ideal for, baguettes, flat breads and pizza dough. It enables to reduce dough shrinkage and improve dough workability on automated lines.
Carat Coverlux White
White chocolate hard coating perfect for making fudge, enrobing, dipping, decorating and much more. Carat Coverlux White has sweet dairy and vanilla notes with a natural cocoa butter colour.
Cremfil Mango
An all purpose mango filling made with real mango juice.
Cremfil Venetian EZ Pack
Cremfil is a range of ready-to-use cream fillings especially designed for bakery and patisserie goods.
S500 CL
A premium clean label multipurpose improver with great volume, dough tolerance and freshness for the production of all types of breads and rolls.
S500 Plus
A superior multipurpose that guarantees outstanding volume, dough tolerance and freshness for ultimate peace of mind. It can be used for all types of breads and rolls, as well as in all baking processes - direct, overnight or short freezing.
Friax Soft
An improver for the production of all types of soft breads and buns.
Intens Freshness
Intens Freshness is based on the latest enzyme technology and help to increase freshness by increasing the softness and moistness of the crumb.
S500 Kimo
An improver in powder form for the production of all frozen, unfermented yeast-raised frozen doughs. S500 Kimo should be used when you are looking to extend the frozen shelf life of your dough products.
S500
A high-quality multipurpose improver with great volume, dough tolerance and freshness for the production of all types of breads and rolls.
RTU Vanilla Custard Crème
A convenient, ready-to-use vanilla custard crème that offers great bake and freeze/thaw stability. Contains no artificial flavours or colours.
Topfil Plus Blueberry EZ-Pack
Our Topfil Plus Blueberry a ready-to-use filling in a convenient 1kg pouch pack. It is made with Canadian BC cultivated blueberries and contains 50% blueberries.
Topfil Choice Wild Blueberry
Topfil Choice Wild Blueberry contains 25% blueberries and is a ready-to-use filling for toppings and fillings for pastries
Deli Dulce de Leche
Authentic Latin American based rich, caramelized caramel filling, inspired by the traditional Argentinian recipe.
Topfil Strawberry Parfait Filling
A strawberry filling made with real strawberry pieces
Foley's No Sugar Added Dark Compound Chips Cacao-Trace 4000 count
Crafted for versatility and indulgence, these dark compound chocolate chips deliver a bold, rich cocoa flavor without added sugar..
Foley's Dark Compound Cacao-Trace Chips 4000 count
Dark chips (4000 pieces/lb) with an intense and rich chocolate. Can be used for baking, decorating, flavoring or inclusions in a wide range of applications.
Foley's No Sugar Added Dark Compound Wafers Cacao-Trace
Rich in flavor and smooth in texture, these dark compound chocolate wafers are formulated without added sugar and sweetened with maltitol.
Foley's Dark Compound Cacao-Trace Chips 1000 count
Dark chips (1000 pieces/lb) with an intense and rich chocolate. Can be used for baking, decorating, flavoring, or as inclusions in a wide range of applications.
Foley's Milk Compound Cacao-Trace Wafers
Milk hard compound coating, with a smooth profile delivering a well balanced blend of milk, caramel and distinctive chocolaty notes.
Our Brioche recipes
Buttery French Brioche Fat-Reduced
Looking for a healthier and more sustainable twist on classic French brioche? Our buttery fat-reduced recipe has been proven to have a significantly lower environmental impact than traditional brioche, reducing its impact by up to 9%.
Braided Brioche Loaf
The opportunities of what your customers can do with this Brioche Loaf are endless. Keep them coming back for more with its great taste and long-lasting freshness!
Brioche Cluster
Brioche Cluster bread with a rich and tender crumb. Made with Easy Brioche mix.
Brioche Bagel
Soft, buttery, and slightly sweet, brioche bagels offer a versatile base for both sweet and savoury creations.
Sustainable plant-based brioche
Move to a fully plant-based brioche and significantly reduce your environmental footprint.
Sustainable plant-based chocolate brioche
Move to a fully plant-based chocolate brioche and significantly reduce your environmental footprint.

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A story of the brioche

The name brioche comes from the Norman dialect “brier”, which means “to knead the dough”. The brioche was first made in Normandy during the 16th century.

Normandy is famous for the quality of its butter. To be considered as a brioche in France, 400g of butter per kilo of flour is required. Over the centuries, brioches spread to many regions outside of France.

What makes brioche different from bread?

 

Brioche is different from regular bread due to its richer ingredients like eggs and butter, which give it a soft, fluffy texture and a slightly sweet flavor. This enriched dough results in a golden-yellow color and a tender crumb, making it versatile for both sweet and savory dishes. Regular bread, on the other hand, typically has a simpler ingredient list, a chewier texture, and a more neutral flavor. These distinctions make brioche a luxurious type of bread enjoyed for its unique taste and texture.

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