raisin challah

By gwen
I brought this sweet honey-raisin challah to my parents' Rosh Hashanah dinner last week. I'm not going to recopy the recipe, because it's long (although the bread isn't complicated to make at all), but I wanted to share it with all of you because it is sweet and tasty and pretty much foolproof.

Woo, happy (Jewish) new year!

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  1. Kelly12:01 AM

    Can you post the recipe for your mom's shofar cake? It was delicious.

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