Panettone (brioche with fruits and chocolate)

Ingredients

• 75 ml warm water
• 2 envelopes baker's yeast
• 650 g flour
• 0.5 cups warm milk
• 155 g sugar
• 4 eggs
• 3 egg yolks
• 1 tsp vanilla sugar
• 150 g softened butter
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tsp salt
• 300 g chocolate chips
• 150 g nuts
• 150 g raisins
• 1 orange grated skin
• 1 tbsp cream to mount
• Sugar

ELABORATION:

Step 1

Pour the warm water into a bowl, add an envelope of yeast and stir until completely dissolved. Add a cup of flour, mix and let stand 30 minutes.

Step 2

Pour the warm milk into another bowl, add the remaining yeast envelope, mix and let stand 10 minutes. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, beat the eggs and two yolks with the sugar and vanilla sugar. Add the milk and yeast mixture, and stir until integrated.

Step 3

Cut 150 g of butter into small cubes, arrange them in a large bowl together with a level a teaspoon of salt and the remaining flour, and knead a few minutes. Add the egg mixture and continue kneading until a homogeneous preparation.

Step 4

Add the first mixture of yeast and knead, about 10 minutes, with an electric mixer, until an elastic dough is obtained.

Step 5

Add the chocolate chips, orange zest, nuts and raisins, and knead a little more to integrate all the ingredients. Pour the dough into a bowl smeared with butter and let stand for 2 hours. Spread a panettone mold with butter, pour the dough, cover with a cloth and let stand between 45 minutes and 1 hour.

Step 6

Preheat the oven to 210 °. Paint the surface of the dough with the whipped cream and remaining yolk, sprinkle a handful of granulated sugar on top and bake the panettone for 15 minutes. Lower the oven temperature to 170 ° and continue cooking for another 45 minutes.