Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is a time for reflection. It's also a time for eating sweet treats like apples dipped in honey...
...and honey cake...
...and ~babka~.
Which is why we were so freaking excited when we found something that was the perfect combination of those three things: APPLE BABKA (!!!) with honey, raisins, and nuts.
We went to Breads Bakery to watch them make the babka.
First, they unroll an enormous sheet of puff pastry-like dough and cut it into long, thin pieces.
Each piece gets a smear of marzipan and a layer of apple-cinnamon-raisin filling.
The filling gets rolled inside the pastry.
Then, each filled roll gets cut into shorter logs.
To make a babka, two logs get ~twirled~ together.
Each twirl gets brushed with more butter and topped with slivered almonds before it's baked.
They come out of the oven looking all golden and puffed and perfect.