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Surprisingly Easy Honey Challah Bread (Recipe Inspired by DEAR ELIZA)

Posted on by CJ | A Well-Read Tart
I can’t help myself… I can’t help myself... HOLLA!!!  I just made my first Challah Bread. **does cabbage patch dance of victory** And it was amazingly, surprisingly easy. Hence the title of this post.   Why is Honey Challah Bread the book-inspired recipe for Dear Eliza? In Dear Eliza, a co-worker brings Eliza some homemade bread after her dad passes away. I’m not sure why, exactly, but the bread ends up being one of the few things the...

Rose Honey Cake (Recipe Inspired by JERUSALEM MAIDEN)

Posted on by CJ | A Well-Read Tart
This Rose Honey Cake turned out so gorgeous, I had a hard time slicing into it. Which is pretty frickin’ hilarious, considering how absolutely awful my first attempt at making this dessert went! If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll remember my post of the cake that flowed like molten lava up and over its baking dish and (thankfully!) onto the baking sheet below. Moral of that story? Don’t try to cram a cake meant for a 9” springform...