Apple Honey Challah Recipe

How to make it

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• Melt 4 Tbs butter in sauce pan and cool
• Combine 2 Tbs melted butter, the flour, water, 1/3 cup honey, eggs, yolks, yeast and salt in a large bowl
• Mix till a dough forms
• Knead on a floured surface till smooth and elastic about 10 minutes
• Transfer to a butter bowl, brush with 1 Tbs melted butter, cover with plastic
• let rise in a warm place till almost double, about 1 1/2 hours
• Turn dough onto floured surface
• Pat into an 8 1/2 ich by 14 inch rectangle
• Top with apples, knead to incorporate apples
• Transfer to buttered bowl, brush with 1 Tbs melted butter, cover and let rise double again
• Roll dough into a rope ( about 24 inches ) on floured surface
• Coil into a circle, place on buttered 9 inch round cake pan
• Cover
• Let rise again till almost double
• Heat reamiang 4 Tbs butter and 1//3 cup honey till butter melts
• Brush dough with 1/2 of butter-honey mixture
• Bake in a 375F oven till golden and done, about 35 minutes
• Brush bread again with remaining honey butter.
• let cool on rack 30 minutes
• Turn out of pan and let cool completely