Bundt Cake

Babka Piaskowa

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    Bundt cake
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond

By Laurel Kratochvila

Published 2025

  • About

Here, we make the world’s most perfect Bundt cake. Bundt is typical not just in Poland but around Eastern and Central Europe. Soft, moist, and crumbly, Bundt babka is a Polish Easter staple and forms the basis of many variations on coffee and streusel cakes. But I’m burying the lede because I’d hate to put you off this. Piaskowa means sandy—a name that reflects its crumbly texture. Don’t worry, no one’s eating sand, it’s just bad marketing. The inclusion of cornstarch and sour cream make th