babka

American  

[bahb-kuh] / ˈbɑb kə /

noun

1. a sweet, spongy yeast cake with raisins, traditionally made in the form of a high cylinder, either solid or with a hole, often glazed, and sometimes flavored with rum.

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Etymology

Origin of babka

< Polish, diminutive of baba baba

Example Sentences

A truly good babka is surprisingly hard to find — lots of chocolate but not too much, layered in lightly sweet, tender yeasted dough — and Zabar’s nails it.

From Salon

Popular items shipped at Thanksgiving time include bagels, smoked salmon, cream cheese and chocolate babka, typically ordered to be enjoyed the day after the feast and through that weekend, Russ Federman said.

From The Wall Street Journal

I think that babka spent the holidays going stale in the mailroom, being picked off by random employees or nibbled by mice.

From Salon

“I feel like we’re in the middle of a babka renaissance this year, as it’s having a moment,” he says.

From Washington Times

In February 2021, friends who attended Hunter College High School with the justice in the 1970s wanted to send her a "care package" of a range of inexpensive items, including bagels, lox, babka and chocolates.

From Salon