#6 Learn to Bake Magnificent Challah Bread

Bake up this dessert Challah in one day. Start in the morning and serve it for dinner dessert!

This is the formula to printout and follow for making up the Toffee Chocolate Dessert Challah.

Let's mix up the dough for a super magnificent dessert Challah. This Challah is a yeasted bread and is filled with toffee candy and chocolate for a scrumptious showy dessert.

Bulk ferment is the first ferment after the dough is mixed. Bulk ferment your Challah dough in a warm place.

Let's prepare the filling for our dessert Challah. It's time to chop some candy bars and chocolate chips!

See how to fold dough and then finish up the bulk ferment for this lovely dough.

This is so much fun. Roll out and the strands of the dessert Challah.

Let's roll up the strands with chopped up toffee and chocolate.

Make up your egg wash and then final proof your dough. Final proof is the time the dough raises just before baking.

Pre-heat your oven and bake your beautiful dessert Challah.

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This is the formula to make a 60% hydration motherdough pre-ferment. This is a downloadable resource.

This is the formula for Sunrise Challah. There is also a printable pdf version of this formula available as a download.

Let's start by mixing our hybrid Challah dough using both a sourdough motherdough and some commercial yeast.

After the dough rests, let's finish our mixing.

I't time to bulk ferment the dough. Bulk ferment is the first ferment of the dough after mixing.

The Challah strands need a pre-shaping, not only for strength, but it makes it easier to form the final strands.

Let's shape the bottom Challah first.

The top of this double decker Challah is a three strand braid. Let's make it!

This Challah needs one more proof (final fermentation time) and an egg wash before baking.

It's time to bake our magnificent Double Decker Challah! Won't your family be amazed!

Fun Quiz about Challah

This is the formula for Soft Challah. It is an unusual way of making a Challah but it results in a soft, sweet Challah that family and friends will rave about.

This soft sourdough Challah uses scalded flour in the formula, see how to make the scalded flour in this lecture.

After the flour is scalded, add the rest of the wet ingredients.

Now that the wet ingredients are ready, let's make the dough!

It's time to bulk ferment and fold the dough for gluten development.

Pre-shape the Challah strands.

Shape your Challah strands into nice tapered ropes.

It's time to let the Challah raise for the last time before baking. Let's give it an egg wash first!

It's time to bake our lovely sourdough Challah!

See the finished loaf and watch me slice into it. Of course with Challah, you can also pull apart the warm pieces and eat it with fresh butter!

This is an additional formula for an overnight sourdough sponge Challah.

Meet professional baker Andrew Meltzer who will show you various ways to braid Challah.

Andrew starts off the class with an introduction (he made a whole wheat dough for the class because it was at a "Wheat" conference, but he doesn't like to use whole wheat for making Challah. He demonstrates how to make a one standed Challah braid.

Andrew demonstrates how to braid with just two strands.

You can actually learn something new about how to braid a three stranded Challah.

It's amazing that there are so many ways to braid Challah! See two different ways to braid a four stranded Challah.

Andrew demonstrates how to braid with five strands using a rope and then dough.

See Andrew demonstrate how to do the classic six stranded Challah braid.

See a six pointed star shaped Challah with 18 strands braided and assembled.

A seven stranded Challah is a bit unusual, see it demonstrated in this video.

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