With Love and Babka: 50 Sweet and Savory Recipes for Everyone's Favorite Braided Bread (a Cookbook)

Description

Become a babka master in the comfort of your own kitchen with this celebration of babka featuring more than fifty recipes that cover sweet and savory variations of the traditional Jewish bread.

In With Love and Babka, pastry chef Elana Pearlman teaches you how to master baking babka as she guides you through the equipment you need, the best techniques, a staple pantry list, her favorite type of flour, and how to use seasonal ingredients. Not only will you learn her most cherished recipes, you'll also discover the history of babka in Jewish communities.

Her debut cookbook With Love and Babka is separated into sweet and savory recipes and includes several variations of dough including classic, butter-blocked, chocolate, and gluten-free. Elana shares many variations of the traditionally sweet babka, including Cinnamon Raisin Pecan, Dulce de Leche, Mexican Chocolate Brownie, S'mores Strawberry Shortcake, and more. These confections will also bring new and exciting babka flavors into your repertoire, with ingredients like oats streusel, marshmallow fluff, glazes, syrups, jams, and more. You will also find mouthwateringly savory babkas including Tomato Pesto, Pizza, Grilled Cheese, and more. You'll be making sweet and savory babka in your kitchen for family and friends in no time.

Product Details

Price

$26.00 $24.18

Publisher

S&s/Simon Element

Publish Date

November 19, 2024

Pages

192

Dimensions

8.2 X 9.1 X 0.8 inches | 1.75 pounds

Language

English

Type

Hardcover

EAN/UPC

9781668051085

BISAC Categories:

Methods - Baking

Courses & Dishes - Bread

Regional & Ethnic - Jewish & Kosher

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About the Author

Elana Pearlman is the founder of Nana Mary's Bakeshop, and coowner of Pig & The Pastry with her husband. Her experience spans the country, having grown up in Southern California and trained at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. It was at the Culinary Institute of America that Elana developed the knowledge and techniques required to create the unique flavor profiles that she has now become known for. After having found some of her great grandmother's old recipe cards, she was inspired to develop her own take on babka. She now lives in Bastrop, Texas, just outside of Austin.

Reviews

"With Love and Babka is exactly the baking book you need right now. Her warm, supportive voice, precise baking instructions and you-can-do-it vibe demystifies every twist, turning babka into something you may just begin making every week."--Adeena Sussman, New York Times bestselling author of Shabbat
"Elana has brought us Bubbe's Babkas and beyond, WAY beyond. Her creative recipes are written with such joy and care that anyone can create a festive babka for a simple afternoon treat or on the most special occasions."--Zoë François, author of Zoë Bakes Cookies
"Elana Pearlman's With Love and Babka is a creative and beautiful collection of sweet and savory recipes. The pages are filled with flavor inspirations such as Strawberry Shortcake Babka, Cinnamon Roll Babka, and even Grilled Cheese Babka that make me want to rush to my kitchen and immediately start baking. [It is for] beginning and experienced bakers alike."--Sarah Kieffer, author of 100 Cookies and The Vanilla Bean Blog
"If you're like me, the best-looking thing on the table at holiday time is, and always has been, a babka. Elana Pearlman looks lovingly at that delicacy, celebrates it, shows you how to make it, and then revolutionizes it. Filled with glorious, mouthwatering photos and incredible new recipes, Elana's book proves that Love and Babka go together."--Phil Rosenthal, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody Feed Phil the Book
"Pearlman is determined to make babka everyone's favorite...Pearlman's meditation on all things babka is a cookbook for both experimentation and mastery."--Booklist

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