How to Use babka in a Sentence

babka

noun
  • Participants will learn how to twist, fill and bake a babka to take home.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2025
  • Our choice today is chocolate babka.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 7 Jan. 2026
  • That means the bread, sure, but also the donuts and the babka and even the chocolate croissants.
    — oregonlive, 20 July 2023
  • Yeh has a recipe for Cardamom Babka in the book, but any babka will work.
    — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Cut about half a loaf of chocolate babka into bite-size cubes, and toss them with 2 Tbsp.
    — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Served fresh from the oven in a hot cast-iron pot with mouth-puckering berry ice cream, the oozing-with-chocolate babka is the one to choose.
    — Nicole Trilivas, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Though their dark chocolate babka will be dearly missed, fans should keep an eye on their social media for announcements.
    — Nick Kindelsperger, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2023
  • But for those from Russia — and this year, for so many from Ukraine — break-fast is a slice of sweet babka and a glass of lemon tea.
    — Ethel G. Hofman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Father and son are surrounded by clear plastic boxes of halvah, rugelach, and babka.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • Its future plans include a film festival and classes on how to make chocolate babka pastries.
    — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
  • In the winter, folks might grab a creme brûlée latte, or s’mores hot chocolate and chocolate babka to watch ice skaters and pickup hockey games on the pond.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Locals have been lining up at this kosher-style spot for bagels, babka, and pastrami on rye since 1953.
    — Jason Sheeler, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Families will still order rounds of bagels, eggs and lox for weekend brunch, then line up at the deli counter for slices of babka and whitefish salad by the pound.
    — Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The menu features Mediterranean dishes and gourmet pastries (cookies, doughnuts, babkas, and more).
    — Jade Simon, Vogue, 20 June 2024
  • The babka part of the cake would surely be paired with coffee, however, once the aspect of chocolate was introduced — well, who knows.
    — Ellyn Laub, Sun Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The cream-soda flavoring is a twist on the vanilla often used in Polish babka, a cake Paulina grew up on.
    — New York Times, 15 June 2022
  • Known for its delicious bagels and chocolate babkas, Avner’s was a popular meeting place where customers would pull up a stool and chat on the sidewalk.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Shelves are laden with a dizzying array of boxes of cookies, granola, bottles of hot sauce, blocks of halva, and containers of babka, and baklava.
    — Ann Trieger Kurland, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Next is a chocolate babka bread, created at the request of Seabreeze’s founder and first chocolate maker, Jim Lantry.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2025
  • Since then, Campbell has tried several babkas as well as other Jewish treats, like hamantaschen and pastrami sandwiches.
    — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Learn the foundations of homemade pizza, or get a tutorial on pastries like babka and cinnamon rolls with the Brunch Bakes class.
    — Carina Finn, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Pastries like passion-fruit malasadas and chocolate-babka pistachio swirls benefit from her sourdough starter, still alive and bubbling after a decade-plus of traveling.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Learn the foundations of homemade pizza, or get a tutorial on pastries like babka and cinnamon rolls with their Brunch Bakes class.
    — Carina Finn, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2023
  • These three takes on chocolate babka are simultaneously modern and nostalgic.
    — Emily Alben, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Among the offerings sure to whet the appetite of deli devotees are challah French toast, matzo ball soup, berbere spice fried artichoke with sumac aioli, and a chocolate babka bun with orange cream and streusel.
    — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
  • This Weekender Pack includes 12 of these famous bagels along with nova, cream cheese, white fish salad, a chocolate babka, and mini black & white cookies.
    — Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • The prix fixe brunch, at $85 per person, includes dishes like eggs Benedict on an English muffin with lemon chive hollandaise sauce and lemon babka French toast.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • After the wedding, the newlyweds enjoyed babka from Long Island before going out to dinner with friends and taking the kids to Hebrew school.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 5 Dec. 2024
  • At Mensch’s, both locations have coffee cake, chocolate chip banana bread, and babka, which can be prepared in a French toast fashion, and black and white cookies planned to come to both locations.
    — Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
  • Both men are themselves Israeli, and Breads’ menu features items from across the Jewish diaspora that are popular in Israel, such as rugelach, challah, bourekas and its award-winning babka.
    — Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2026

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