Best Rum Soaked
Babà Napoletano is a small Neapolitan yeast cake baked in a characteristic mushroom-like or ring shape and saturated with a rum-flavored sugar syrup. Its ancestry is associated with the Central European babka, but Naples developed the soaked pastry into a distinct local specialty during the 18th and...
The Baba au Rhum is a traditional French dessert featuring a light, yeast-risen brioche cake. It’s notable for its unique preparation: the brioche is repeatedly dipped in a rum and honey syrup, then left to soak overnight. This process infuses the cake with a rich, boozy flavor. It's typically enjoy...
Savarin is a French ring-shaped cake made from an enriched yeast dough and soaked after baking in a flavored sugar syrup, often containing rum or another spirit. It developed in nineteenth-century Paris as a variation on baba and was named for the gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. The centra...
