Have you ever made a babka? We tried a number of recipes for this enriched-dough bread with a ribbon of flavor, and we came up with very mixed results. Listen in on to see what we baked and our favorite babka recipe! Recipes mentioned in this episode: ⁠Babka (America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book) Cinnamon babka (Claire Saffitz, NYT) Savory babka with ricotta and herbs (Melissa Clark, NYT) Better chocolate babka (Smitten Kitchen) Chocolate babka (Melissa Clark, NYT) Sprinkle butter babka loaf (Nadiya Hussein) Birthday cake babka (What Jew Wanna Eat) Join our Cookbook Club! Our Instagram, ⁠@cookbookclubshow⁠ E-mail us: ⁠[email protected]⁠ Find Renee and Sara on Instagram: ⁠@hipchickdigs⁠ and ⁠@realtor_saragray⁠ Our sponsor: ⁠Dropcloth Samplers⁠ Cook along with us! Next cookbook episode (releasing 12/27/2023): Smitten Kitchen Keepers, by Deb Perelman