RFCJ RECIPE ARCHIVE
Posted by : Rina Perry Babka (Baba), Mother's - dairy
My Mother's Baba. Source: From my mother with love & More Family recipe. Ingredients : 2 Tabls Sugar. 1/2 Cup Warm water 3 eggs 1/2 cup sugar 1 cup butter, melted & cooled 1 cup sour cream 6 cups flour FILLING: 3/4 cup butter 3/4 cup sugar 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa 1 tsp cinnamon 1 cup raisins (soaked in liqueur) 3/4 cup crushed walnuts DOUGH: Mix the first 3 ingredients in warm electric mixer bowl. Cover with nylon seal wrap and let yeast rise in warm place for 15 minutes. Start to mix dough with your cake beater. Add eggs, cooled butter to yeast and mix. Add flour alternately with sour cream. NOTE : After 3 cups of flour change beater to the yeast dough beater (it is like a hook). Mix well. Continue to knead with the hook another 5 minutes. Switch off. Take 1 tbsp of oil and oil with your hands around dough so it won't stick to bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and with a kitchen towel and leave in your refrigerator overnight. Let dough stand at room temperature at least 1/2 an hour. Knead again just for 1 minute. Transfer to floured board and divide in half, or make smaller cakes. FILLING: First of all soak raisins with liqueur, Micro for 1 minute on high; set aside. Cream butter with sugar till fluffy, add cocoa and cinnamon. TO MAKE CAKES: Take 1 portion of the dough, knead lightly few times and make a ball. Put some flour on board so it won't stick. With the rolling pin roll out a rectangle leaf. Drain raisins (or better still drink the liqueur.) Spread 1/2 of the butter on top, sprinkle with walnuts and raisins. Start rolling away from you and trying to roll as tight as possible. Repeat the same with the second part. If you decide to have 3 cakes, divide the filling in 3. NOW : You can put one cake a round a tube baking pan. One, or two in 2 bread pans, or cut in 2- 1/2 inch pieces and put upside in a round 28 cm round spring form pan, leaving some space to let the dough rise. Of course you have to butter all the baking pans. Cover pan (pans) in nylon warp, cover well with towels and leave to rise again for 1/2 an hour in a warm place of course out of draft. Bake in pre heated 350 degree F (hot oven) for 35- 45 minutes. Enjoy. Rina. >From my own collection.
