In the mixing bowl stir together milk and sugar until dissolved. Then add yeast. Wait 5 minutes until foamy. Then add 1/2 cup flour and beat with mixer on medium speed until combined. Then add 2 eggs, ...

I love that babka translates to “little grandma” in Yiddish, because the sweet braided bread — with swirls of filling reminiscent of Bubbe’s pleated skirt — is always as comforting as one. My ...

Kat Thompson is the associate editor of Eater at Home, covering home cooking and baking, cookbooks, and kitchen gadgets. She’s once eaten an entire loaf of babka in a single day. When I asked my ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --The Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah kicks off Sunday. To celebrate the New Year, Breads Bakery in Manhattan has added some traditional treats to its menu. Baker Edan Leshnick ...

This chocolate babka is inspired by Dr. Brown’s black cherry soda. Black sesame cocoa filling is dotted with cherry preserves, plus cocoa crumbles for even more chocolate flavor and texture. The ...

My favorite kind of dessert is anything that goes well with coffee; luckily, that category includes most desserts but is specifically an excellent fit for coffee cake. Coffee cake may not contain any ...

Note: This recipe offers two shaping techniques: for a free-standing babka in the Israeli Kranz cake style, or the more conventional loaf. The basic dough recipe is from "Artisan Breads Every Day" by ...

Editor’s note: High altitudes make cookies spread in the pan, cakes fall, and few baked goods turn out as they do at sea level. This twice-monthly column presents recipes and tips that make baking in ...

Babka very well might just be the king of all Jewish desserts. The sweet braided bread – usually swirled with chocolate or cinnamon – is addictively delicious, perfect either hot or room temperature, ...

Rich, gooey, seemingly endless layers of chocolate will make you forget its somewhat homely exterior. If babka is the hip Jewish treat du jour, then kokosh cake is its slightly homelier cousin of ...