Crystal! Thank you so much!

That looks soo good! What a treat!!

Looks good Ann! I love bread with lots of holes.

This is food porn at it's best. *drool*

wow, how did I miss this??? Sheesh. Babka...Charlotte...I have so much to learn...

Those all look fabulous. Will has been begging me and begging me to make some bread. You just talked me into it. However, I'll need the power of the forum for it to turn out, I think. :-)

Heck, I'd need divine intervention to have it look like yours!

And he has a Cub Scout Pizza party tonight, so I may wait til tomorrow.

Oh and Ann, I finally got your recipe book moved from the old computer in the basement to the one upstairs. I thought I had done it awhile ago, but could never find it! Will and I were looking at it and guess what my task is today? Boston Cream Pie. :-)

Stacy

Stacy,bread is one of the easiest things to make. Just don't over think it.

And that Boston Cream Pie is one of my all time favourite desserts. I don't know why I don't make it more often. If you get a chance, make it early in the day so that the custard and the cake have time to kind of "meld" together.

Enjoy.

Ann
PS. I've started to make a separate cookbook for just desserts since most of my desserts are missing from the main cookbook.

Wonderful looking bread and cake Ann! Thanks you so much for posting your recipe for Tarte au Sucre! My Dad is going to love it. His mom used to make something like that and it was his favorite. Looking forward to your dessert cookbook!

Shelley

Oh My...I have to go work out after just looking at your pictures! Another scrumptious view from Ann's kitchen...

I have to stop looking at these beautiful posts. Makes my breakfast banana and yogurt seem so sad.

oh yea - Ann! I hope you'll let me know when the new version is ready.

Hey, I just emailed you - question about the cake!

Stacy

Stacy, I just saw your mail and responded. Hope I wasn't too late.

Ann

nope, I made the filling in the mean time. :-)

Thanks!

Ladies this is all just to yummy Don't know how I came across it on Garden Web but sure some very fine recipes

This is featured on the Explore Garden Web clickies. Way to go Ann!

A Canadian I see
Me as well form Barrie Ontario

You are raising worms in an apartment. That is interesting
What do you do with your worms. I guess just keep them going and use the soil that is made for your houseplants

Interesting and it seems a happy person
Have to look to see what is
Explore Garden Web clickies
Must be something newer or just something I have not come across before on Garden Web

Hi Diane,
There have been clickies on the right side of the page for a number of months now. Right about the time where everyone can see the latest posts, above the pics.

It's a good way of having people visit numerous GW forums. I've done that, then forgot where I saw that interesting thread! LOL

Yes I have worms, they eat a lot of our food leavings. We also use the city's green bin program.

What worm compost I can't use, I let the landlords use it on their garden which they generously let us have a piece of. I've also Freecycled worm poop and have had repeat customers!

The first time hubby had experience with them, he was ironing in the spare bedroom, and when he came out, he said there is no smell, no noise, no one would even know they were there. So they passed muster. I'm a couple of hours southwest of you, and Ann the lady whose baking is featured, is from BC near Vancouver, I believe. BTW, if you want to see some awesome meals, noodle around the Cooking Forum (which this is)

I did some wor composting down in FLorida this past winter

I have a little place down there for winters

Went to some get togethers about it all Is a good program for sure

For me maybe not going to work as I am at one home half a year and then half a year at the other
And o one would take care of the worms I know it is good and the soil is fantastic

you would be a popular lady

I am trying to diet so will stay away from those fantastic recipes just now

I know now then what you mean those little titles on the side of the page Didn't know they had a name but yes they are good and you might see something that interests you and would not have known about it

Sure I stumble across this post years later when I'm dieting!!!!!

Auuuggggghhhhhhh!

ann_t, your 'babka' looks great!

But I'm puzzled.... there is a large Polish community here and "babka" for us is an egg bread with golden raisins! This is an old pic, but it's what I think of when someone says "babka". lol!

Thanks Jasdip.

Party_Music, I lived in Toronto where there were a lot of Jewish Bakeries and I often picked up a chocolate or a cream cheese babka. Never one with raisins though. But only because I hate raisins.

There is a classic Seinfeld show about a chocolate babka.

~Ann

I've never had babka of either kind. Guess I need to expand my horizons.

How do I get you to send me one?
Almost looks too good to eat.
Josephene

I know for most people Babka is bread.

My polish grandmother made a Babka that was a custard with grated potatoes, egg, milk and onion. You could slice it when it cooled. The next day, you could slice it even thinner and ... fry it in butter.

I never met anyone else who made it, and when someone says "Babka" is it usually a bread. My grandmother was 2nd generation Polish from Warsaw, and she spoke and wrote the language.

Ann...........do you weigh 400 pounds? I know I would, if I lived at your house! I gained 8 pounds just looking at that pic of your cream cheese Babka! :)

Wel well well Mtn'dux, my GM was Polish, and my Mother could write as well as speak it fluently~that's the only way any of the *12* sons/daughters could communicate with GM. I could never understand a word of it, but would listen intently, and when GM looked and smiled at me, knew she was talling about me. lol

Anyway, growing up it was called Platcek, and was only made during the holidays. Mom made all the same dishes GM would make, but I especially loved the Pierogi, the mashed potato w/cottage cheese or sweet cabbage. She never made meat or fruit ones, but had other relatives who tried them but no one liked them. Just had to share........

My mother is Polish and spoke/wrote Polish before learning English... her family came here from Poland, so I know Polish food as they knew it.

"Babka" actually means 'grandmother' in Polish. :)

Have to bake this beauty! ;-)

Did anyone here see the recipe posted anywhere? If it was I missed it several times. Would love either version. The bread or the Cream Cheese. Thanks!

This title is used not only in Poland but also in Ukraine. I have an old book with cooking recipes, and they described the preparation of many differеnt "babka." And the name of the Polish and Ukrainian languages represent the same thing: Grandma and cake.

SheilaMae the recipe is posted above. See Link below for some additional options.

~Ann

Thank you! I'm brand new here.

Hi Ann,

I just made your Cheese Babka. I baked it at 400 degrees, but baked for 25 minutes, not the recommended 15-20.

It looked beautiful! I made the glaze and applied it after the Babka cooled.

However, I was so surprised to find the cheese filling poured out of the center when sliced and it was like a thick custard and not at all set as your photograph shows.

Baking it longer than 25 minutes at 400 degrees would have burned it, so wonder if this should have been baked at 350 degrees for about 40 - 45 minutes instead?

Please advise and thank you.

Hi SMor, yes, I did receive your email and responded.
I can see how this thread from 2008 could be confusing, coming into it now and not having followed it at the time it was posted.

The Babka was made using the Tarte Au Sucre dough, with the filling from the Cream Cheese Danish.

The Tarte Au Sucre is just a simple sweet yeast cake which bakes quickly in 15 to 20 minutes at 400°F.

But the cream cheese danish because of the filling takes longer to bake and at a lower temperature. So the Babka was baked at 375 °F until golden brown. The filling and the cake need longer to bake than the Tarte Au Sucre.

The temperature is mentioned in my response to a question by Khandi on on Mon, Jan 21, 08 at 20:19.

I'm sorry that you had a problem. I hope you will give it another try.

~Ann

Hi Ann,

Yes, I received your message and thanks so much for the clarification. I will be baking this again, tomorrow, as it is a fantastic recipe! ~ SM

I baked a batch of cream cheese danish last week.

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all pics look scrumptious !!!!

do u actually have a cookbook?
reading thru this post and it sounds like u do...
would love to have the title and/or info...

thanks so much!!

Your cream cheese danish look wonderful, ann_t!

Sprtphntc, I don't , but I share all recipes on my blog.

~Ann

Thanks Party_Music.

awesome blog,,,,

Thanks !!!

Your dessert cookbook-to-be sounds wonderful - especially if those of us who don't bake as well can manage your fabulous recipes.

Where is the recipe for the Babka?

Debbie, it's in the 5th post down. AnnT says she used the Tarte au Sucre cake recipe for the dough and the cream cheese filling from the second recipe for the filling.

AnnT is a marvelous cook and accomplished baker, I've never gone wrong with one of her recipes and I've been posting on the Cooking Forum for about 20 years along with her.

Annie

Darn - I got excited. I thought she was back!

Nope, not back and she hasn't posted on her blog since November either, I need to check with her. I was told that Chase has also been banned. (sigh)

Annie

Moe just had steak for breakfast, lol. She posts most often on egullet.

(I'm all over the internet the past hour trying to decide on 3, just three, cookie treats, sweet and savory...trying to pair down from a dozen)

oops, nope. Breakfast this morning, "Pork Piccata in a lemon green peppercorn sauce with a side of pasta". yum.

She has been purged from GW as per the moderator. Now I'm probably next.

Hi all, Ann T was purged? Am I next for asking?