This Challah Poppy Seed Babka with Bourbon Sugar Syrup is a not-too-sweet Purim dessert and can also be made without alcohol.

the word “babka” in both Polish and Yiddish, is a diminutive of “baba,” meaning old woman or grandmother.” Get a printable ...

According to Jewish food historian Gil Marks, kokosh cake, like Polish babka, wasn’t originally made with chocolate; both chocolate and cocoa were expensive ingredients in shtetl times.

These people buy their raisin-filled babka at Jaslowiczanka, a hole-in-the-wall bakery bearing the last name of the Polish immigrant who founded it in 1989. The concoctions in the front case ...

Babka is popular in the Jewish diaspora and in Eastern European communities. Bought fresh from a bakery, it is delicious. Serve for breakfast, brunch or afternoon tea. It can be served warm or at ...

Our simple babka recipe – an enriched dough that falls deliciously between a bread and a cake – is filled with twists of rich chocolate spread. It's impossible to resist. To make the dough ...