This Whole Wheat Pumpkin Challah is an easy to make homemade bread that is perfect for fall or any time you are craving pumpkin bread.
I have a wonderful treat for you today. The talented Roxana of A Treats Affair (formerly known as Roxana's Home Baking) is visiting the asylum today to share a recipe with all of us.
Honestly, I love Roxana's blog, she is so creative and knowledgeable. We met through Foodbuzz back when it was the place for us food bloggers to connect.
I am hoping to be well enough in a couple of months to actually get to meet Roxana in person. We are both planning on attending the same event, so let's all cross our fingers I get the okay to do small trips from my doctor.
I'm hoping against hope I am able to go since I'm super excited to be able to sit down and talk to her in person. Maybe whoop it up a little. Well, as much as us moms actually whoop things up I suppose.
I promised Roxana we'd all skype her daughter while we're there. She may think her mom has been kidnapped by a bunch of lunatics. She may not be that far off the mark.
Hello Kim's lovely readers!
Those of you who don't know me, I'm Roxana, the baker, photographer, writer and dish cleaner behind A Treats Affair.
I'm a stay at home mom and wife juggling between kitchen and playroom and everything in between. My little lady bug is soon to be three and I'm her favorite play-pal. From tea parties and picnic with the dolls to cookie baking, we do everything together.
I'm happy to be here and share this whole wheat pumpkin challah recipe with you.
Let me go back a little bit and share a secret.
When Kim asked me to guest post for her I was debating if I should make a turtle something (since as you probably know that's her weakness) or candy something.
In the end I decided to go with a pumpkin Hersey's kisses brownie but this week is bread-tastic week on A Treats Affair so here I'm with a loaf of bread combining my passion for yeast baking and the wonderful warming fall flavors.
If you'd like to win a box of goodies from Red Star Yeast you can enter here and check out my homemade croissants.
I know some of you might say " oh no, yeast! SCARY!!!! RUN!!!" but please, give me 5 minutes to explain.
Baking with yeast is such a wonderful thing. You mix it with water and wait for the foam to appear, then with a handful of ingredients and a lot of love and patience you watch it come to life.
And then, the smell takes over the kitchen while the bread is in the oven. There's nothing in this world as comforting as the smell of freshly baked bread.
Take the loaf when it's done baking and share it with your loved ones. Toss a salad, a bowl of hearty soup, spread some butter on the warm bread and enjoy!
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Whole Wheat Pumpkin Challah
Ingredients
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl add ½ cup flour, ½ cup water and yeast. Stir and leave at room temperature until foamy and has a spongy texture.
- Add the pumpkin, eggs, oil, honey and salt and with the dough hook on start mixing.
- Slowly add the remaining 4 ½ cups flour and mix until the dough forms a ball and comes clean from the sides of the bowl.
- Take the dough out and place it in an oiled bowl. Cover with plastic foil and leave at room temperature until doubled in size. (This generally takes 1 hour minimum, or up to 3 hours)
- When risen, divide the dough in 6 pieces and either braid two loaves or one big loaf.
- Place the braid(s) on a cookie sheet, cover with plastic foil and leave at room temperature until doubled in size. (This generally takes 1 hour minimum, or up to 3 hours)
- Meanwhile preheat the oven to 375F.
- Just before baking, brush the loaves with the egg wash and sprinkle sesame seeds on top (optional)
- Bake for 40 minutes or until slightly brown and it smells wonderful.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
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Baker Street
Absolutely stunning! Roxana is so good with baking bread and once again she's done a fabulous job with this challah!
Kim Bee
She just amazes me. I cannot wait to tackle Challah now. She made me feel like even I could do this. Love her.
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking
Aww, thanks Anu. You're so sweet. I do with lots of passion, that's the success key
Ramona
This is amazing looking bread and so healthy too!! Absolutely stunning photographs. Wonderful guest post and I hope you ladies have great weekend. 🙂
Kim Bee
Thanks for coming by Ramona. I give all the accolades to the lovely Roxana today.
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking
Thanks Ramona (my sister is called Ramona)
Hope you're having a wonderful week
kitchenriffs
I've never had a Pumpkin Challah! What a terrific idea! So nice - looks like it has great flavor, and you can't get more seasonal. Good recipe, excellent guest post. And Kim, when you do your pizza dough, just one thought: instant yeast is your friend. I buy it by the pound so it's cheap, then freeze it, and it lasts me several years.
Kim Bee
Thanks for visiting. I love having you stop by. I shall keep it in mind. I buy instant and I buy the jars and keep them in the fridge. The active dry yeast scares me but it's also so cool when it does it's thing. Lol.
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking
Hi Kitchenriffs,
making challah is not as hard as one thinks and it's such a wonderful bread. Hope you give it a try
RavieNomNoms
Your bread looks phenomenal!!
Kim Bee
She makes wicked good bread!
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking
Thanks Raven!
elisabeth@foodandthrift
Kim and Roxana, You ladies collaborated in one of the BEST and most creative guest post I have seen in a long time. Such a perfect selection for Fall! Love, love the Pumpkin Challah...so magnificent, and super delicious. Pinned it twice in 2 categories...stumbled it...(yeayyy, just signed up)...tweeted it, as well:)...now, off to Roxana's blog. Hugs,
Kim Bee
Awe Elisabeth you are so sweet. Thanks so much for all the pinning, stumbling (I use it but forget about it often, more cuz I can never remember my password, lol) and tweeting it. I love when you stop by. xx
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking
Hi Elisabeth,
you're always so kind. Thanks for the lovely words and for sharing my guest post 🙂
Laura (Tutti Dolci)
Wonderful guest post from Roxana! This is such a beautiful challah bread - I love the pumpkin variation for the season!
Kim Bee
She really did a wonderful job and I'm so grateful to her for easing my work load this week. She's such a sweetheart.
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking
I can not get enough pumpkin. Thanks Laura
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking
Hi Kim,
Thanks for letting me take control over your asylum for one day, it's lots of fun! can't wait to see you in few weeks <3
Enjoy your day with the family
Kim Bee
It was my pleasure Roxana. I so enjoyed having you. And I cannot thank you enough for lightening my work load this week. It means so much to me.
Vicki Bensinger
WOW Pumpkin Challah now that's something I'd love to try. I haven't made challah in years but always loved the smell and pleasure of making it. Very unique. I'm saving this recipe. Thanks for sharing.
Kim Bee
Thanks so much for coming by Vicki. I am so craving Challah right now.
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking
Thanks Vicky.
You should give it a try, now with the pumpkin season all around us 🙂
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef
I love Roxana's cooking and her baking sends me swooning. Great guest post!
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking
aww, thanks Maureen. Your comments always make me smile
Kim Bee
Me too Maureen. Thanks for visiting.
Nami | Just One Cookbook
That's true...Foodbuzz introduced me to MANY of my blogger friends including you and Roxana. It was such a wonderful networking place and I'm glad that we still keep in touch. I cannot imagine someone who's starting a blog right now. It must be a lot harder to get to know the food blog community as quickly as we did. Roxana is a great baker and she always encourages me to bake. This pumpkin challah is so beautiful. If she's my neighbor I'd order homemade bread from her and stop buying bread from bakeries. I love her recipes. Nice guest post ladies! Oh I hope you get to meet in person!! Take good care Kim!
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking
Hi Nami,
I'm so thankful for Foodbuzz, I meet so many wonderful bloggers who over time became friends. I guess now we're left only with social media to meet other bloggers.
Thanks for your lovely comment
Kim Bee
I wish Foodbuzz was still around and the same as it was in the good old days. I agree, starting out now must be tough. I liked the sense of community Foodbuzz offered.
I'm with you, if Roxana lived nearby I'd never buy bread from the store again.
Crossing my fingers I get the okay to go on this trip.
Michelle @Amourbeurre
trying this tomorrow!
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking
I hope you liked it
Kim Bee
Hope it rocked your world.
Katherine Martinelli
I love homemade challah and the addition of pumpkin is brilliant and perfect for fall. Great guest post! 🙂
Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking
Thanks Katherine 🙂
Kim Bee
Thanks for visiting Katherine. Always happy to have you at the asylum.
Kiran @ KiranTarun.com
Homemade challah bread looks so delicious and beautiful. Love the styling 🙂
Kim Bee
Roxana is amazing with photography. I wish I had half her talent.
Stephanie Eskridge
Is this supposed to be a drier dough? I threw away one batch of dough because it just didnt look and feel right. I am now waiting on my 2nd try and it still seems to be a drier dough for challah. Any tips?
Kim Beaulieu
Hi Stephanie. I'll email Roxana right now so she can come help you out. I'm sure she'll swing in to answer your question soon.
Roxana
Hi Stephanie,
It's not supposed to be a dry dough.
There are various reasons why a dough might end up dry although you followed the recipe and most of the time the flour is to blame. If your package of flour has been opened for a while, your flour is a little on the dry side and it needs a little more liquid.
Or you may have not measured the flour correctly and added more than needed.
I'm more than happy to help you out with this recipe. Please email me directly with your questions.
Roxana
Renee W
Brilliant! This was even more delicious than I expected!!
Kim Beaulieu
So happy you liked it.
Toni
It turned out really good! Thanks so much for the recipe!
Kim Beaulieu
I'm so happy to hear that. Thanks.
Willie
This bread was AMAZING! The ledtovers made the perfect french toast the next morning!
Kim Beaulieu
That's awesome! Thanks.