Diana's Desserts - www.dianasdesserts.com

Polish Babka

in Guest Recipe Book

Average Rating: 
(total ratings: 9)
[Read reviews] [Post a review]
Servings: 2 loaves
 
Comments:
Babka

Definition: [BAHB-kah] Hailing from Poland, this rum-scented sweet yeast bread is studded with almonds (or walnuts), raisins and sometimes orange peel.

Copyright (c) 1995 by Barron's Educational Series, from The New Food Lover's Companion, Second Edition, by Sharon Tyler Herbst

This is a sweet bread and delicious both plain or spread with butter. The dough is easier to handle if mixed with a wooden spoon instead of using an electric mixer with a dough hook.

Make this special "sweet" bread for breakfast or brunch on Mother's Day.

Ingredients:
1 cup milk
1/4 cup water
1 stick (4 oz.) butter or margarine
Note: Heat above ingredients briefly to about 120 degrees F/50 degrees C

3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 package (1/4 ounce/7 grams) dry yeast
2 eggs
Approximately 20 marachino cherries, halved
1 cup raisins
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
Cinnamon sugar, (amount to preference)
1 tbsp. rum, (optional)

Instructions:
1). Mix flour, sugar, salt and yeast together. Blend in heated milk mixture; add eggs and then more flour as needed until dough can be easily handled. Knead for about 15 minutes.

2). Place dough in a large greased glass bowl and turn so top of dough is also greased. Cover and let rise in warm place until double in bulk.

3). Divide dough in half. Roll out each half into a rectangle shape. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, then scatter cherries, nuts and raisins over cinnamon sugar.

4). Roll up, seam side down, and place in 2 greased loaf pans (seam side down). Cover and let rise again.

5). Bake the babkas in a 325 degree F (160 C) oven for 25 to 30 minutes. (If they begin to brown too quickly, cover them loosely with aluminum foil).

Note: When kneading, if dough is difficult to handle, grease hands!

Makes 2 loaves.

Source: Family Recipe
Submitted By: Joan
Date: April 16, 2003

Reviews

Reviewer:  samantha
Rating: 
Review:
This seems like a very good recipe. Thanks for sharing it.

 
Reviewer: kenzie
Rating: 
Review:
it was awesome i brought it to my class to share

 
Reviewer: Llamilia
Rating: 
Review:
Tastes like heveanly goodness!

 
Reviewer: ashlee
Rating: 
Review:
thank you i can use this for my class..they will love it. i was assigned to bring in something sweet from my background which happens to be polish.

 
Reviewer: rachel whitehouse
Rating: 
Review:
i didnt like that at all (poor)

 
Reviewer: Ingrid
Rating: 
Review:
Nor does it have cinnamon or any other such flavours. The taste is subtle and simple, which is what is so great about it.

 
Reviewer: Ingrid
Rating: 
Review:
I am critical of adulterated recipes. Traditional Polish Babkas do not have nuts or cherries or alcohol. They only have raisins or currants and are flavoured with grated lemon zest. They tend to be glazed with a mixture of confectioners sugar, lemon juice and water.

 
Reviewer: aussieIngrid
Rating: 
Review:
This is not a polish babka....call it something else and I would consider giving it a higher rating......

 
Reviewer: Katie
Rating: 
Review:
This is just like the recipe my Babci used to make when I was a kid. She spoke mainly Polish and this is truly a polish babka recipe from the old country.

 

Add Your Review

  YOUR NAME (required)
  YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS (required)
 (Excellent)
 (Very Good)
 (Good)
 (Could be Better)
 (Poor)
  RATING (required)
YOUR REVIEW:

More Recipes in this Section

Viennese Topfenstrudel with Vanilla Sauce Affogato al Caffe’ Aguas Frescas Alfajores (Caramel Sandwich Cookies) Alfajores-South Amercian Sandwich Cookies Almond Tuiles Amaretti Amaretto Tiramisu ANZAC Biscuits (Cookies) Apfelkuchen-Spicy Apple Cake Aqua Fresca de Sandia (Watermelon) Arroz Doce-Portugues Rice Pudding Bakewell Tart Banana Hazelnut Empanadas Banoffi Pie Barbara's Baklava Basic Crêpes Bazlamaca (Cornmeal Sweet Slice) Berry-Apple Empanadas Bienenstich Cake (Bee Sting Cake) Blancmange with Orange Sauce Bonet Boterkoek (Dutch Butter Cake) Brigadeiro Bubur Cha - Cha Bugia Buñuelos Cajeta (dulce de leche) Calabaza en Tacha Cannoli Carrot Halwa Cassata Cake Champurrado (Mexican Hot Chocolate Drink) Cherry Bakewell Tartlets Chinese Tofu Flower Dessert Chocolate Chip Cannoli Chocolate Panna Cotta Chocolate Tres Leches Cake Chocolate-Orange Biscotti Churros Cigarettes Russes (Piroulines) Classic Vanilla Pots de Creme Cornish Saffron Cake Crema Catalana Crème Brûlée Crêpes Suzette Crostata della Nonna Danish Aebleskiver Danish Flødeboller Danish Kringle Dobos Torte Drømmekage fra Brovst (Danish Dream Cake) Dutch Stroopwafels Easy Dulce de Leche Easy Norwegian Lefse Empanadas de Guayaba (Guava Turnovers) England's Victoria Sponge Cake Enjambre de Nuez (Chocolate Pecan Clusters) French Almond Macaroons French Madeleines Fresh Berry Tiramisu Fried Masa Cakes with Cheese (APREPAS DE QUESO) German Lebkuchen Loaf Cake German Style Cheesecake (Kaesekuchen) Grand Marnier Creme Caramel Greek Kourambiedes Cookies Gugelhupf Bierkuchen (German Beer Cake) Gulabjam Gur Cake for St. Patrick's Day Harry's Bar Torta di Zabaglione Horchata Hungry Monk Banoffi Pie Hurmasice Indonesian Layer Cake Irish Apple Crumble Irish Porter Cake Jammie Dodgers (Clone) Biscuit Sandwich John's Zabaione Käsekuchen - German Cheesecake Kasutera-Japanese Sponge Cake Khoya Gulab Jamun Kuih Lapis or Kueh Lapis Lamington's Leckerli Bars (Spiced Swiss Bars) Lemon Taralli Lemon Walnut Biscotti Limonada Madeira Cake Ma'moul (Date Patries from Syria) Mango Creme' Moilee Mango Pudding Mango Sago Mascarpone Filled Bougatsa
Mascarpone Filled Bougatsa Mexican Brownies Mexican Chocolate Cake Mexican Chocolate Chip Cookies Mexican Chocolate Layer Cake Mexican Chocolate Pie-Pastel de Chocolate Mexicano Mexican Coffee (Café de Olla) Mexican Hot Chocolate Mexican Raspadas (snow cones) Mexican Wedding Cakes (Cookies) Milk Chocolate Cannoli with Pistaschios Milk Chocolate Semifreddo Miniature Baklava Bites Moravian Sugar Cake Muah Chee Nan Khatai (Cookies from Pakistan) Nanaimo Bars No Yeast Nut Bread Old English Trifle Orehnjaca (Croatian Walnut Strudel) Paletas (Mexican Popsicles) Pan di Spagna Pan Di Spagna (Italian Sponge Cake) Pandan Chiffon Cake Pandan Chocolate Cream Cake Pandan Coconut Waffles Pandan Custard for Cake Filling and Frosting Pandan Layer Cake Pandoro di Verona Panettone Panna Panna Cotta Panna Cotta with Berries Paris-Brest Pasta Ciotti or Pasticiotti (Little Custard Tarts) Pasta Frolla - Italian Sweet Pastry Dough Pastéis de Nata-Portuguese Egg Custard Tarts Petits Pots de Crème à l'Orange Picarones Pierre Herme's Chocolate Macaroons Pikelets Pinca - Dalmatian Easter Bread Pine Nut Amaretti Pithiviers Polish Babka Polish Krusciki Portuguese Sponge Cake - Pao de Lo Princess Cake Queijadas de nata (Cream Tarts) Quick and Easy Buñuelos Ras Malai Ris ala mande with Cherry Sauce Rosettes and Timbales Sachertorte Savarin (French Ring Cake) Savoiardi (Ladyfingers) Scandinavian Christmas Gløgg Scottish Petticoat Tails Shortbread Serbian Baklava (Sevdidjan Baklava) Smoutebollen-From Belgium Sopapillas Spiced Apple Cake with Guava Cream Cheese Spiced Citrus Pikelets Steamed Pork Buns (Char Siu Bao) Sticky Toffee Pudding Strawberries with Balsamic Vinegar Swedish Apple-Lingonberry Cake Swedish Pancakes Sweet Rice Flour and Coconut Cake (Butter Mochi) Sweet Rice with Mangoes Sweet Tamales Swiss Zopf Bread Syllabub with Berries Taralli from Puglia The Dairymaid's Wafers (Seterjentas Rømmebrod) The Italian Bellini Tiger Cake-Finland Tiramisu Tiramisu Tiramisu Torta alle Banane (Banana Cake) Torta della nocciola e del cioccolato Torta di Amore Torta di semifreddo del limone Torta Prugna Treacle Toffee Tres Leches Cake with Whipped Cream Topping Tropical Fruit Salad in Jelly Tsoureki (Greek Easter Bread) Tufahije - Nut Filled Apples Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta with Apricot Coulis Walnut & Rum Raisin Crêpes with Chocolate Sauce Yorkshire Pudding Zuccotto Alla Cioccolato