babka
/ˈbɑbkə/
noun
- A sweet, rich yeast cake, often filled with chocolate, cinnamon, or nuts, and typically twisted or braided before baking.
- I decided to try making a babka from scratch, but the dough was tricky to braid.
- The bakery is famous for its cinnamon babka, which sells out before noon every Saturday.
- For dessert, my grandmother served a warm chocolate babka with vanilla ice cream.
- A type of Eastern European bread or cake, sometimes savory, made with a rich dough and often baked in a tall, fluted pan.
- At the Polish festival, we bought a traditional babka studded with raisins and almonds.
- She learned to bake babka from her Ukrainian grandmother, who used a special pan for the tall loaf.
- The savory babka, filled with cheese and herbs, was a hit at the potluck dinner.
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