Name: Babka’s Babka
Yield: Makes one 25 cm tube cake, about 16 servings
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt; 400 g strong white bread flour; 170 g honey; 1 tablespoon fine granulated active dried yeast or instant yeast; Icing sugar for serving; 2 medium eggs; ½ teaspoon fine sea salt; Grated zest of 1 large lemon; 100 g raisins; 110 g sugar; 150 g whole milk, scalded and cooled to lukewarm, about 38°C; 300 g ground poppy seeds; 60 g unsalted butter, melted; 80 g sugar; 225 g whole milk

Preparation info

Makes one 25 cm tube cake, about
16
servings

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Nick Malgieri's Bread

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2012

About

Babka is a wonderful bakery-cafe in Melbourne, Australia, run by Sasha Lewis and her son Nico, who is the head baker. When I decided to include a babka recipe in this book, I asked Sasha if she had one.

I had never tasted the babka at Babka, but I loved it as soon as I tried the recipe. You can purchase ground poppy seeds online. One small word of warning: if you’re not sure whether you like poppy seeds, try t