This recipe was included at the very last minute, on the last day of our cookbook photoshoot. My sister Angela and I felt that we would not do justice to our mother’s memory if we had left this out. She had made apom balek very frequently in the later part of her life. The recipe kept resurfacing in her files but I was discouraged from testing it because I did not think I would know how to. Thankfully, Angela had the gumption to just try it out.