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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