• Baking Recipes,  Yeasted breads

    Have some Salted Chocolate Babka in January, because why not?

    I’ve been feeling kind of weird these past few days, and I’m going to chalk it all up to yet another bad case of wanderlust. Getting back from my year-end trip always puts me in this funk. I want to get up and go on another adventure! But being the realist that I am, I do know that without work, I don’t have the capacity to play at all. And well, there’s no other option but to let this mood pass I suppose. Life is not an extravagant fairytale. I don’t believe in being excessive in life, but this loaf of bread is kind of cutting it close. In the…

  • Baking Recipes,  Bread-making,  Christmas & holidays,  Living traditions,  Yeasted breads

    Easier Chocolate Babkas to make in a pinch

    Ever since I heard about Chocolate Babkas, they immediately wrote themselves into my to-bake list. I had no idea what a Babka was except that it involved chocolate. Surely anything with chocolate would be fantastic right? Later on I learn that it is actually a loaf of yeast bread with chocolate inside! The reason why I am not all that familiar with babkas is because, other than the fact that I’m fairly new to the foodie world, we don’t really have much of a designated food item for the Lenten Season. I guess you can call my efforts at making these Easter pastries an attempt to start some sort of…