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This Hungarian coffee cake is even better than babka Advertisement This article originally appeared on The Nosher. One morning, my wife suggested I look into making a different kind of bread. Not necessarily to replace my weekly challah habit, but just to try something new. I asked what she had in mind and she mentioned monkey bread. I’d never heard of it.  So I Googled and turns out that monkey bread is actually a yeasted cake. Its origins are rooted in the immigrant Hungarian Jewish community that came to the United States. I immediately thought of my father’s grandparents, Jews who im...

It makes great leftovers, warm or cold, for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

You Can’t Beat a (Savory) Babka Fill your kitchen with the aroma of a freshly baked bread. Jennifer Eremeeva / MT With snow set to be a fixture for much of next week, what’s needed now is an absorbing project to keep us inside — preferably one with delicious results. And for that, you can’t beat a babka! A savory babka with mushroom filling in this case: cake meets bread, and breakfast meets dinner in this yeasty, eggy braided loaf, stuffed with delicious swirls of rich, umami filling.    The babka is one of Eastern Europe’s more tenacious confections, thou...

sufganiyot. As soon as the Israeli Hanukkah doughnuts start appearing in bakeries at the beginning of the Hebrew month of Kislev, weeks before the festival, Kent launches into his tastings. He samples the gamut, from the ubiquitous red jelly-filled to the decadent halva or dulce de leche-flavored, at gas stations or at high end patisseries. “I never eat an entire donut” he wrote via e-mail. By the time Hanukkah actually starts, he’s done with doughnuts and has latched on to latkes. Of course, each oily food in Kent’s annual routine is a traditional Chanuka treat among Jewish communiti...