This vegan challah recipe is spiced bread more than anything else. There's no egg in it, which is what makes challah challah in my opinion, but we do braid it, so I call it faux-challah.  The dough is pretty sweet so we added lots of salt to make it a savory loaf, but it's just as easy to make sweet by adding cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and raisins.

Here's how I made it with my friend Mary:

Step 1: While the yeast proofs with warm water we put the dry ingredients in one bowl.

Step 2: These are the spices we used in our challah: Italian seasonings, basil, parsley, garlic, sage and rosemary.

Step 3: We added our spice mix to the flour and sugar we already had waiting in the bowl.

Step 4: Then we added the water and yeast and began to mix.

Step 5: We added the olive oil and began to knead by hand.

Step 6: We've finished making the dough.

Step 7: So we let it sit in a warm kitchen covered by a towel for two hours.

Step 8: The dough rose.

Step 9: We beat it down, let it rise again, and then divided it into two loaves, which we braided.

Step 10: After the loaved were braided we covered them with a towel again and let them rise for another half an hour.

Step 11: Then we baked at 350 for 25 minutes or so. Yummy!!