Cranberry Sweet Rolls

Q: What do you get when you mix milk, honey, vanilla bean, yeast, flour, salt, a stick-and-a-half of butter, 10 egg yolks and takes three days to make?

A: Milk and Honey Brioche

Q: What do you get when you mix sugar, water, and fresh cranberries, boil them for 12 minutes, then separate the solids from the liquid?

A: Cranberry Jam (and a sweet container of cranberry juice – think Cran-Martini!)

Q: What do you get when you roll out the Milk and Honey Brioche dough and spread it with the Cranberry Jam?

A: Cranberry Sweet Rolls.

This was the yellowest (10 egg yolks!), silkiest (albeit stickiest) dough I’ve ever handled. It is the softest, most tender bread I have ever eaten. And 3 days to make? From someone who wants everything right now? I can just tell you that it was well worth the wait.

These lovelies come from Stella. Besides graduating from the Culinary Institute of America and currently working as a Pastry Girl (don’t call her a Pastry Chef) at Table 310 in Lexington, Kentucky, Stella has a beautiful blog, Brave Tart, where she shares her creations with us.

Here are the links to Stella’s recipes:

Milkand Honey Brioche

CranberryJam

CranberrySweet Rolls

Happy New Year!