A sweet braided or swirled Jewish bread or cake, often containing chocolate, cinnamon, or fruit filling.
From Yiddish 'babke,' possibly derived from Slavic roots (related to Polish 'babka' meaning 'grandmother' or a type of cake). The term entered English from Jewish culinary traditions in Eastern Europe.
Babka has become a trendy bakery staple in recent years, but it's ancient—versions appear across Jewish and Eastern European communities, and the chocolate babka craze started in New York's Israeli bakeries in the 1990s.
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