Cookbook Club

62: Babka

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Have you ever made a babka? We tried a number of recipes for this enriched-dough bread with a ribbon of flavor, and we came up with

very mixed results. Listen in on to see what we baked and our favorite babka recipe!

Recipes mentioned in this episode:

  • ⁠Babka (America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book)
  • Cinnamon babka (Claire Saffitz, NYT)
  • Savory babka with ricotta and herbs (Melissa Clark, NYT)
  • Better chocolate babka (Smitten Kitchen)
  • Chocolate babka (Melissa Clark, NYT)
  • Sprinkle butter babka loaf (Nadiya Hussein)
  • Birthday cake babka (What Jew Wanna Eat)

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