Did you maybe mean baba?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind, rum, almonds, and raisins.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds
Etymologies
- From Slavic (Wiktionary)
- Polish, diminutive of baba, old woman. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I really don't know why it wasn't labeled a "babka"-perhaps they just thought some people wouldn't know what that was.”
“The foods traditionally blessed by a priest for Easter can be placed in three categories: breads (particularly a yeasty cake called babka), meats (ham, veal, suckling pig, sausage, bacon) and dairy products (butter, cheese, eggs or pisanki-often beautifully decorated by hand).”
“• Easter bread and cakes of all kinds, particularly a yeasty cake called babka”
“Shoyer, the owner of Paula's Parisian Pastries Cooking School in the Washington D.C., area, spends more than 300 pages modernizing Jewish classics such as babka, honey cake and hamentaschen and creating kosher versions of today's trendiest desserts - favorites like red velvet cupcakes.”
“I've never had babka but the ingredients sound amazing”
“When did I last crave a babka?" mused 46-year-old Emily Katz, who grew up in the area.”
The Wall Street Journal: Pushcarts Gone, Hester Street Area Seeks New Life
“I wouldn't ever suggest leaving a chocolate babka around us; that could be very very dangerous.”
“For dessert, try the peanut butter and jelly sinkers, doughnut holes to be dipped in warm peanut butter and jelly, or the homemade warm chocolate-cinnamon babka Loaf.”
“And a box arrives from Zabar's in New York with rye bread and chocolate babka.”
USA Today: Arizona shooting victim sorry she could not save girl
“I've made nearly a dozen recipes from this cookbook -- from coffee cake streusel muffins to chocolate babka to peanut butter cookies, and all have elicited shouts of joy from my coworkers.”
Felicia C. Sullivan: The Epic Ten: What You Should Covet in 2010
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘babka’.
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Let them eat cake.
cake, cakes, Cake, bundt cake, pancake, cheesecake, yellowcake uranium, urinal cake, pound cake, birthday cake, wedding cake, sponge cake and 62 more...
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A Crumb Of Comfort
Types of bread & breadmaking terms. Mainly I'm looking for plain or savoury breads but I'll accept the sweet-ish ones as long as they are more bread than cake :-)
lagana, khobz, pita, foccaccia, ciabatta, bap, altamura, knead, leaven, crumpet, muffin, bagel and 202 more...
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Interesting Foods
smelt, sprat, caviar, sushi, papadum, garlic naan, injera, doro wat, miso, pho, edamame, tataki and 170 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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Newsweek
All the words that are fit to be made up. Or, you know, to get into a weekly newsmagazine. I've been meaning to make this list for a long time.
brohawk, blasian, ghitalian, mcmansion, mcstrip mall, cornet wales, i could tell you ..., mackerel-snapper, tous les beaux es..., in the tank, longheadedness, kusa and 101 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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Just Desserts
The most sinful desserts from around the world.
tiramisù, zabaglione, panforte, gelato, granita, crème brûlée, flan, clafouti, crêpe suzette, crème caramel, mendiant, baklava and 36 more...
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Things / Objects / Minor
ocelot, tesserae, ukulele, favela, usquebaugh, aquarium, ayahuasca, curandero, habitué, atelier, soubrette, Zelig and 13 more...
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Slavic Languages Spelling Bee List
need to learn these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gulag, robot, troika, siberian, kishke, sable, polka, sputnik, babushka, gopak, trepak, baba and 40 more...
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Comestibles and Libations
Food and drink words
rumfustian, grout-ale, weizenbock, zymurgy, wort, multum, coq au vin, mead, schooner, lager, malt liquor, bock beer and 47 more...
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Misc Cooking words
Tweets
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bilby бабка May 15, 2008
chained_bear "If you could dig up laughs in a chocolate babka, you really were the funniest show around."
--Marc Peyser, "Legend or Loser: Does 'Seinfeld' Still Hold Up After 10 Years?" Newsweek, May 12, 2008, 58 May 15, 2008