bake 52: week 9-- Babka

Michelle was our host this week for bake52!  She chose babka- a polish sweet bread.  I think I had heard of it before, but wasn't sure what it was exactly.  

OOoooh, Babka.  Let's just say this-- it's a good think I'm not Polish.  For if I had discovered my intense love for you back in my youth, I'm sure I would now weigh 400 pounds!  This is one of those recipes I am going to have to execute some serious willpower to avoid making weekly. :) 

I went totally rouge on this recipe, too!  Refrigerate 10 hours??  Forget that!  I wanted the babka for that evening-- so I just stuck it in the freezer for about 5 minutes and pretended that was the same thing.  I also completely forgot to do the egg wash step at the end-- it had been baking for about 20 minutes before I even realized I'd skipped a step!!  So I was really nervous that my babka was going to be terrible-- but thank heavens this is a very forgiving recipe!  It was DELISH!!  

My two babka's, fresh out of the oven.  {Who else loved the tips on pan lining???  Perfect!  They popped out of the pans beautifully!! I love bake52!!}

Close up of the babka yumminess!

... and a shot of the inside, swirled to yummy perfection!!

I am so in love with babka!  It was a huge hit with our family and our house guest we have this week.  I was actually planning on taking a loaf over to our neighbor, and my little guy about tackled me as I headed to the door to prevent it from leaving.  We had no problem taking care of two loaves!!  :)

Head over to Michelle's blog for the recipe!!