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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: After hamantashen, the only kosher bakery on Vancouver Island is making its mark—with a challah-donut
Description: My Way Bikery, the only kosher bakery in Victoria, B.C., will of course be selling traditional Purim hamantashen cookies for the rest of March. But Moshe and Leah Appel, the bakery’s new owners, are becoming known for one of Leah’s creative inventions: the “challnut”. It’s a donut made from challah dough, filled with jelly and topped with sugar.
They are so in-demand that, last week, someone actually stole a whole tray right out of the bakery’s storefront location inside Victoria’s Public Market.
The story of how the Appels opened their new bake...