Key facts
- Alternative names
- Baba au rhum , savarin (closely related dessert), babà or babbà (in Naples)
- Type
- Cake
- Course
- Dessert
- Place of origin
- France
- Region or state
- Lorraine
- Main ingredients
- Eggs, milk, butter, rum
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
A rum baba or baba au rhum is a small yeast cake saturated in syrup made with hard liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream. It is most typically made in individual servings (about a 5 cm tall, slightly tapered cylinder) but sometimes can be made in larger forms similar to those used for Bundt cakes. The batter for baba includes eggs, milk and butter.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “rum baba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.