This chocolate babka is inspired by Dr. Brown’s black cherry soda. Black sesame cocoa filling is dotted with cherry preserves, plus cocoa crumbles for even more chocolate flavor and texture. The ...

This chocolate babka is rich, soft, and packed with deep chocolate swirls in every slice. The key is a tender, buttery dough ...

This babka recipe has a chocolate-hazelnut filling — plus crushed amaretti for crunch — and is enrobed in a chocolate glaze bolstered by vanilla and espresso.

The most spectacular babka is the ingenious Kranz cake variation, in which the strand is split down the middle, opened to reveal the chocolate, then crisscrossed to make a braid. However you shape it, ...

Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. Since I didn’t grow up with babka, I didn’t really know what I was missing. By the time I got acquainted with the ...