TWD BWJ Rewind: Sweet Berry Fougasse

July 29, 2014 at 12:01 am | Posted in breakfast things, BWJ, groups, sweet things, sweet yeast breads, tuesdays with dorie | 9 Comments
Tags: baking, bread, breakfast

I went from no fougasse ever to two fougasses (or is the plural Fugazi?) in one month. The group made Craig Kominiak’s Sweet Berry Fougasse back in September of last year, but we were given a choice of two things and I skipped it to make muffins instead. When we did Leaf-Shaped Fougasse a couple of weeks ago, it dawned on me that I could also make enough focaccia dough to turn the extra into the Sweet Berry Fougasse for this week’s make-up. Know what that’s called? That’s called strategery.

With the dough ready-made (I had it frozen and took it out the night before baking to thaw in the fridge) and blueberries and raspberries from the greenmarket, all I had to do to put this together was mix up a little sweet streusel topping and turn on the oven. This was good…it made a fine breakfast treat without the little twinge of shame that I have when I start the day with half a pound of butter. I pretty much want every coffee cake or muffin I eat to have streusel on it, so it was nice on bread, too, and helped sweeten up the juicy berries. I probably wouldn’t bother to make this from scratch start-to-finish, but more likely if I have some extra focaccia dough on my hands again.

For the recipe, see Baking with Julia by Dorie Greenspan (a version is also here and there’s a video here that includes Kominiak making all things focaccia and fougasse). Don’t forget to check out the rest of the TWD Blogroll to see the other recipes folks revisited this week (and the Blogroll from September)!

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Wowieee!!!

Comment by food passion and love— July 29, 2014 #

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Oh my…that looks heavenly!!!

Comment by Sugarkisses and Love— July 29, 2014 #

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OK I’ve never even heard of fougasse, but clearly I need to make it now because that looks delicious!!

Sues

Comment by wearenotmartha— July 29, 2014 #

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I’m so with you on the streusel, and this fougasse looks like a great vehicle for it! Although at heart I’m still all about the coffee cake…

Comment by Kate— July 29, 2014 #

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Strategic indeed!! Sounds like you enjoyed the breakfast.

Comment by Sunita— July 30, 2014 #

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Looks delicious!!

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Comment by Hannah— July 31, 2014 #

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Very clever strategy 😉 I liked the berry fougasse a lot but you are right – might be too much time for this in the end simple sweet.

Comment by alvarosa— August 2, 2014 #

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Yummy!

Comment by retrocookery— August 2, 2014 #

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Wow. That looks r e a l l y tasty.

Comment by Cathleen— August 6, 2014 #

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