
🍯 Desserts
Perfect Challah Bread: The Soft, Braided Loaf That Defines Shabbat
Pillowy, slightly sweet, and gorgeously braided — challah is the centerpiece of the Jewish table and easier to bake than you think.
Miriam Levin•May 26, 2025•9 min read
Babka, rugelach, challah, and honey cake — the sweet, buttery, braided heart of Jewish baking.

Pillowy, slightly sweet, and gorgeously braided — challah is the centerpiece of the Jewish table and easier to bake than you think.

Buttery enriched dough wrapped around ribbons of dark chocolate, baked until glossy and tender — here's how to make the babka everyone's obsessed with.

Layered with cinnamon-sugar apples and made with oil instead of butter, this naturally pareve Jewish apple cake stays impossibly moist for days — the ultimate sweet new year bake.