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

Moderator Joined: Feb 28 2006 Posts: 4103

And also between: Cheese Babka and Cheese Danish?
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A babka cake is a higher, yeastier, fluffier cake. Kokosh is much flatter and the chocolate is a lot more gooey.

Babka:

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Kokosh:

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wow!! thanks for posting those pictures.. I always wondered what the difference was.

thank you !!!

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so did I, and those pics look good enough to eat! Very Happy

Diamond Member Joined: Jan 14 2011 Posts: 2733

there goes my diet.....

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How do you make the babka shape? Is it to rolls twisted together?
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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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Diamond Member Joined: Nov 30 2006 Posts: 2595

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".

Actually I twist it around itself.

Gold Member Joined: Feb 12 2008 Posts: 2386

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.