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What's the diff. between: Babka and Kokush Cake?



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Mishie




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Apr 30 2012, 6:24 am
And also between: Cheese Babka and Cheese Danish?
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BeershevaBubby




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Apr 30 2012, 6:28 am
A babka cake is a higher, yeastier, fluffier cake. Kokosh is much flatter and the chocolate is a lot more gooey.

Babka:


Kokosh:
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MrsDuby




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Apr 30 2012, 8:30 am
wow!! thanks for posting those pictures.. I always wondered what the difference was.

thank you !!!
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studying_torah




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Apr 30 2012, 8:43 am
so did I, and those pics look good enough to eat! Very Happy
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black sheep




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Apr 30 2012, 8:44 am
there goes my diet.....
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mizle10




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Apr 30 2012, 8:59 am
How do you make the babka shape? Is it to rolls twisted together?
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sunny90




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Apr 30 2012, 9:28 am
Either 2 rolls twisted together (or one long roll twisted in half), or (and I think this is how the one in the picture is made) rolling it in from both ends.
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nylon




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Apr 30 2012, 9:42 am
I shape babka by rolling it like a jelly roll, joining the ends to make a loop, then twisting it in a double figure 8 and putting it in the pan.

Danish is something else again. Danish is a laminated dough, like puff pastry or croissants. The fat (traditionally butter, but kosher bakeries use margarine to keep it pareve) is put in a block inside a yeast dough and then the package is rolled out and "turned" to make a flaky dough. Babka is more like a rich challah dough, with the fat mixed into the dough. Danish has an egg in the dough, croissants do not, so Danish is cakier and less crisp.

Kokosh cake derives from a Hungarian pastry called makos kalacs, poppy seed roll. In Yiddish, this became just "makosh" and so the variation with chocolate filling became "kokosh".
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BeershevaBubby




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Apr 30 2012, 10:00 am
Actually I twist it around itself.
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shnitzel




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Apr 30 2012, 10:33 am
I've made babka that was basically cake dough with yeast, it wasn't rolled, just dropped into the pan. Kokosh is rolled thinnly. I make kokosh that is divine from an imamother recipe.
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