And the chocolate babka

Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. Can't get enough. This one's from Smitten Kitchen, also for last week's dessert donation. It seemed to be a big hit at the office too!

Full disclosure: I had not, until last week, really known what a babka was. I believe the cat may have had that nickname at some point in his lifetime, but I did not equate babka with any kind of cultural food memory. But damn, I was missing out.

Rolling in/out the dough.

Sprinkle on the chocolate & butter & cinnamon & sugar...

10:45 pm: Roll it up, twist it up, shove it in the pan, then take a somewhat unappetizing photo...(Then let rise for 1/2 hour?? What? Bedtime is now?)
The morning after (an hour or so in the oven).

I thought the one on the far left was the ugliest, so that's the one I brought to work. We get freaking cookies in the office (there are at least 3 packages of Oreos), so I figured an ugly babka wouldn't be a problem.

The best reaction was laughter and the "Have you seen the Seinfeld episode with the babka??" because I haven't recently, but probably did at some point because that show is always on and I will always watch it if it is and Law and Order: SVU is not.

I hope everyone found it as amusing and/or delicious.