{TWD} Brioche Snails

Today is Tuesday and another week with Tuesdays with Dorie. Wait...What? eiroD htiw syadseuT htiw keew rehtona dna yadseuT si yadoT.....Rewind! Every once in awhile we have a week where we choose the recipe instead of the one chosen by another fabulous baker. Every time I flip through Baking from My Home to your the Brioche catches my eye. The photo of the Brioche loaves is lovely but the recipe I keep thinking about is the Brioche Snails.

Pastry Cream and Cheddar Cheese

Cinnamon Sugar and Garlic Powder

Chocolate Chips and Bacon

The dough came together pretty easily except that I am apparently the Kavorkian of food processors. My new one has a dough setting on it and I think I managed to ruin it.  There may have been a bit too much dough for the food processor to handle. I had to finish off the dough by hand and I was a little worried that I hadn't mixed it well enough. Since I am so good at reading directions I completely skipped the part where I needed to make pastry cream. I pulled that together Sunday morning and let it cool in the fridge while we were at church.

On Sunday I was not thrilled to finish off the brioche...I was just feeling a little unmotivated. I posted on Facebook that I needed to finish it. A fellow gigwidow from England, Kristie, posted that she loved Brioche with mushrooms and spinach. That go me thinking about how to make my snails savory. I decided to make half with pastry cream, cinnamon sugar and chocolate chips and the other half with cheddar cheese, garlic powder and bacon.

Imagine walking through the doors of Panera bread and lovely smell that wafts toward you. That is what my house smelled like when I opened my oven. I could hardly wait to try them and they were hardly cool when I handed them off to my children. They devoured both the sweet and the savory Brioche snails.
My husband loved them as well even though every time I said the word "brioche" he finished it off "burrito".

This are on my list to make again however, I may need to wait until I have a Kitchenaid before mixing dough like that again. :) Make sure to check out LYL to see what the other TWD bakers chose this week.