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According to Jewish food historian Gil Marks, kokosh cake, like Polish babka, wasn’t originally made with chocolate; both chocolate and cocoa were expensive ingredients in shtetl times.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...