and cakes such as babka and mazurek being some of them – there’s no canonical list of recipes, and the choice of foods seems more diverse and less obvious then on Christmas. Let’s take a look at some ...

According to Jewish food historian Gil Marks, kokosh cake, like Polish babka, wasn’t originally made with chocolate; both chocolate and cocoa were expensive ingredients in shtetl times.

Technically, babka is a bread made with a dough, unlike cake that is made with a batter ... the word “babka” in both Polish ...

The sweet travels of the babbà actually began in Poland, where the name brings to mind the traditional Polish babka cake. Its full story has a Polish king at the centre… But let’s start at the ...

These people buy their raisin-filled babka at Jaslowiczanka, a hole-in-the-wall bakery bearing the last name of the Polish immigrant ... church picnic cake. Better to stick to the rustic baked ...