Pearl's Challah that tastes like cake

4 cups warm water
4 oz fresh yeast
1 tbsp sugar
5 lb high gluten flour
2 cups sugar
1 1/2 tbsp salt
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups canola oil

Preheat oven 300. combine water, yeast and tbsp sugar in a bowl (don't use plastic). Put bowl on open oven door for at least 10 min.

Put flour in huge bowl. Remove 1 cup of flour. Add sugar and salt. Mix. Push the flour to the side and leave a well in the center.

Pour the yeast mixture, eggs and oil into the well. Mix well.

Knead the dough. Add more flour if it's too sticky.

Oil the top of the dough and cover the bowl with plastic wrap. The dough will need to rise now. Either I leave it in the oven (turned off) for a few hours or I leave it in the fridge overnight.

When the dough is ready, you will need to separate Challah with a Bracha. Take a handful of dough and say "Harai zeh challah." Then make the bracha "Baruch atah Hashem Alokeinu melech haolam asher kidishanu bmitzvosav vitzivanu lihafrish challah." This portion of dough must be burned (I put it in the broiler).

Now make your Challahs. Let the Challahs rise again for at least an hour in their individual pans. Then brush them with a mixture of 1 egg plus some brown sugar. Bake at 350 for about 25 min until golden brown.