Baking with Mom

I've mentioned on here a few times that the BEST cook I know is my Mom, so whenever she comes into town, we get to work in the kitchen. One of my more fun cookbook purchases as of late is "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day" and one of my favorite recipes is the basic brioche. You can do anything with brioche! I never knew. I would share it right here, but the authors are pretty strict about copyrighting, so, if you care to link to their site you can find it there for free.

I've made it in loaf pans, as a fluffier tart crust, in a fruit layer cake, in muffin pans, as a bun, and as the traditional brioche, but I prefer the loaf with cinnamon sugar. Here we're doing a loaf of cinnamon sugar and chocolate ganache.
The chocolate ganache isn't as pretty because I think I used too much ganache (say what?! You can use too much ganache?!) but it was mighty tasty. Give it a try. Your hips won't love me but your taste buds will!