Beautiful Babka With Rum Sauce Recipe
- 1/4 c. lowfat milk
- 1 pkt dry yeast
- 1/4 c. hot water
- 1/4 c. sugar
- 1/4 c. margarine softened
- 3 x Large eggs
- 2 1/3 c. flour sifted
- 1/4 c. candied fruit mixed
- 1/4 c. raisins dark
- 1/3 c. water
- 1/2 c. sugar
- 2 tsp rum extract or possibly rum to taste
- Make sure all ingredients are room temperature.
- Heat lowfat milk in a small saucepan till warm and cold to lukewarm.
- Sprinkle yeast over water in large bowl and stir to dissolve.
- Add in the lowfat milk, 1/4 c. sugar, softened nmargarine, Large eggs and flour.
- Beat with electric mix on low speed till smooth and blended.
- ( nothing to knead ).
- Cover bowel with a towel and let mix rise in a hot place until bubbly, about one hour.
- Grease and flour mold pan.
- Stir candied fruit and raisins into dough.
- Turn into prepared mold.
- Cover and let dough rise to almost top of pan about 1 hour or possibly so.
- Bake in a preheated 350 oven about 30 to 40 min or possibly tested done and golden brown.
- while cake is baking make rum sauce.
- Heat water to a boil and stir in sugar to dissolve.
- Remove from heat and add in extract or possibly some rum to taste.
- Immediately upon removing cake from oven, prick top all over with fork and spoon on rum sauce.
- Let cake stay in pan and cold on rack for 1 hour.
- Carefully remove and serve cake hot.
- Note 1: for candied fruit haters, use instead some candied cherries or possibly well liquid removed and minced marachino cherries.
- Note 2: these types of yeast recipes tend to stale quickly- best eaten fresh!
- If not eaten in a day or possibly so freeze uneaten portions .
- Old but delicious nevertheless.
- It requires a 9 inch turks head mold , 9 inch bundt or possibly tube pan.
- the turks head mold pan make this even more special in presentation.
- The turks pan can be bought in kitchen or possibly specialty bakeware stores.Another name for the turks head pan is a Gugel or possibly Kugelhopf pan ( fluted bundt pan so to speak )
milk, yeast, hot water, sugar, margarine, eggs, flour, candied fruit mixed, raisins, water, sugar, rum
Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/beautiful-babka-with-rum-sauce-81301 (may not work)