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babka

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bab·ka  (bäbk)
n.
A coffee cake flavored with orange rind, rum, almonds, and raisins.
[Polish, diminutive of baba, old woman.]
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Noun1.babka - a coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds
coffee cake, coffeecake - a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee


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The meats and the decadent cakes--including a tall decorative cake called babka, often topped with a cross or a fish--represent the hearty, rich foods people traditionally abstained from during six weeks of Lenten fasting.
A moveable feast: a Polish Catholic would be a basket case without ... by LaReau, Renee M. / U.S. Catholic
Zhevelev said he and a partner will only make minor changes to the 60-year-old bakery, but most things will stay the same, with staples like rugalach (a crescent-shaped Jewish cookie), babka (a coffee cake-like pastry) and mondel bread (similar to biscotti).
Roll with it: Jewish bakeries stand fast against competition by Brown, Rachel / Los Angeles Business Journal
Compared to, say, Cyprus or Northern Ireland, it's a piece of babka," he insists.
This land is my land: how Arafat and Sharon have debased the very ... by Hammer, Joshua / Washington Monthly
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