Onion Brioche

If you buy a cebularz, a savory onion brioche, eat it immediately. The good ones will soak oil and butter right through a paper bakery bag, rendering the paper translucent and your hands onion-scented butter bombs. Rich chałka dough is topped with melty onions and poppy seeds and sold as individual rounds or, more rarely and, some might say, sacrilegiously, cut as squares off a sheet pan like focaccia. Likely a relative of the bialy and pletzl, cebularze have a gorgeous sweet-savory softnes