PUFF PASTRY POPPY SEED CHOCOLATE BABKA

If you love chocolate babka, but don’t want to wait for the babka dough to rise and rest. Then this is the simplest way how to make it. I have used premade puff pastry and transform it into beautiful swirls filled with poppy seeds and chocolate.

I am loving to work with puff pastry, and I am using it very often in sweet and also savory baked versions. If you would like to get inspired and make more pastries with puff pastry, here are more recipes:

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Ingredients for puff pastry babka

• Pre-rolled puff pastry sheet 15″ x 12″
• Can of poppy seed filling
• Milk or dark chocolate
• Small egg (for egg wash)

I have created this Poppy seed & chocolate babka and I love serving it as a Sunday afternoon treat with coffee. I love Sunday baking and let me tell you, sometimes there is not that much time, so I like to skip the proving dough or resting it. It is time-consuming, so I came with this easy variation of babka from premade puff pastry.

What is babka aka twisted sweet bread

Babka is usually dense cake, made out of brioche dough or you might know it under sweet bread. It’s a sweet yeast dough filled with fudgy chocolate, cinnamon, jam, poppy seeds in layers, swirls and baked. You must have already spot it on Instagram as a piece of cake/bread with hundreds of beautiful swirls.

Where to get poppy seed filling

I am taking a little twist on this babka, and I am using puff pastry and filling it with what my grandma used to fill it with poppy seeds filling with raisins and candied oranges. Plus I added a bit of melted chocolate in the filling. I am using this filling Helio Masa Makowa Poppy Seed Filling Fried Fruits and Honey 

Poppy seed filling can be prepared at home, but you will need this special poppy seed grinder.

Can I use different filling for babka?

You can always just use Nutella as your filling or any kind of chocolate or fruity spread and it will give the right satisfaction.

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How to fill and roll pastry with chocolate?

Usually babka is baked in loaf pan, but because we are using puff pastry, we will bake it on s simple baking sheet covered with parchment paper. How to fill the babka with poppy seed filling is easy. You roll out the puff pastry in rectangular shape and with spatula spread it all over the dough.

Roll it lengthwise into a tight roll. Now it’s the part where the long swirls will show up. The long cylinder of dough must be cut in almost half along the middle of the long roll (leave a little end uncutted, it will be easier to braid). Then, the two sides needs to be twisted like a braid. At the end you brush it off with egg wash and bake it for 35- 45 minutes. And that’s it. You enjoy sweet puff pastry slices with poppy seeds and chocolate.

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