Comments on: Babka

By: Lewis Greene

Lewis Greene — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:52:31 +0000

Around 7th to 9th St. in NYC around Women Garment Workers apt hse there are Bakery’s Called “BABKAS”.Trying Delancy St (delancy Dessert co NYC) http://www.babka.com
I love Cinnamon type with walnuts,almond paste,almond extract, raisens. Same filling as Ruggalach.

By: Mirka Frolec

Mirka Frolec — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:31:36 +0000

Hello,
this recipe is quite good and is used not only in Poland. Have a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gugelhupf
You can see two babkas there named Gugelhupf and Babovka, they were prepared in another European countries.
When baking yeast dough babovka I also use walnut or poppy seed filling. For walnut filling you need 2 cups of walnuts,1 and 1/5 cup of powdered sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of grated yellow rind of lemon or orange,vanilla essence, a pinch of cinamon, 1 and 1/4 cup of water.
Let the water boil, then add sugar and ground walnuts and rind and cinamon and vanilla esence.
For poppy seed filling you need 1 and 1/2 cup of ground poppy seed, 1 cup of powdered sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of grated yellow rind of lemon or orange,vanilla essence, about 1 cup of milk or water.
Let the milk boil, then add sugar, rind and vanila essence and ground poppy seed.
In Summer I prefer water to milk. Both fillings is possible to thicken using crumbs of white bread.
Try these babovkas with cafe au lait…
Enjoy baking.

By: Ginevra Blake

Ginevra Blake — Mon, 22 May 2006 03:32:27 +0000

Bea’s Bakery has the finest Babkas in the world. Be sure to try the cinnamon one, too! Bea (the wonderful owner years ago…now her fine son runs the bakery) really knew how to make the most exquisite bakery products in the world.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:00:27 +0000

The best babka I have ever had was made by a kosher bakery on Hope St in Provdence RI. Unfortunatly the owner retired a few years ago and I have yet to find any as good and I have tried many, including Dean and DeLuca which I had when visiting my son at Georgetown. It was good but not great.

By: Marlene

Marlene — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:07:11 +0000

The best babka I ever tasted was from Delicious Bakery in Northridge. Both the chocolate and the apple are FANTASTIC. Wish I could get their recipe.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:00:11 +0000

my sister Nicole made these over Christmas and presented me with one. OH myyyyyyyyyyyy. It was great. With a cup of Earl Grey tea. Now that is what I call a mommy time out!

By: Me

Me — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:20:11 +0000

My wife is demanding a bubka!

By: Liza

Liza — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:10:38 +0000

I’ve had a really yummy chocolate babka from Dean and DeLuca. It was a couple of years ago, but they might still have it!

By: LAURIE

LAURIE — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 06:03:26 +0000

I never had or even heard of the aforementioned “babka” before. But if someone were to volunteer to make it for me I would be very willing, even eager, to give it a try & get back to you with my critique!

By: Ximena

Ximena — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:08:14 +0000

I loved that seinfeld episode! always wondered what a babka looked like. thanks