Break Your Yom Kippur Fast With The Babka New York Craves
When it’s time to break your Yom Kippur fast, it’s babka New York wants! After all, if Seinfeld taught us anything, a good babka is worth the wait. Whether you insist upon chocolate, keep it traditional with cinnamon, seek innovative new flavors or need a gluten-free version, we’ve rounded up some of the best babka New York has to offer.
Orwasher’s bakery
Baking Eastern European Jewish fare since 1916, Orwasher’s is considered New York’s oldest Jewish bakery, so it’s the natural place to start. For the High Holidays, Orwasher’s is offering the classic cinnamon and chocolate babkas, alongside their signature sticky-bun-inspired babka studded with crunchy pecans for texture and richness.
Zabar’s
True story: one time, I brought a chocolate babka from Zabar’s to a gathering as a hostess gift, and the way the guests oohed and aahed over it, you’d think there were veins of pure gold rippled through the layers of pastry. If that doesn’t tell you “This Is The Babka New York Goes Gaga For,” then I don’t know what does! Their Homestyle Babka is available in Cinnamon and Chocolate, as well as a festive Apple flavor for the High Holidays!
Bread’s Bakery
Babka is what put Breads Bakery on the map, so Breads put a babka on their logo. Literally! Their signature chocolate babka is a mixture of Nutella and dark chocolate, which alone is an impressive innovation on the babka classic. But if you visit their DUMBO location, you have the exclusive opportunity to taste their Pizza Babka, with spicy shakshuka-inspired tomato sauce atop the flaky pastry. Now that’s what I call a New York Babka!
3x3 Kitchen
What’s better than one gluten-free babka? How about seven creative flavors of gluten-free babka! Bronx babka breakout 3x3 Kitchen offers innovative flavors that expand on traditional babkas, such as adding cardamom and saffron or walnuts to their cinnamon babka and pistachio to their chocolate offering, without the pesky gluten!
However you celebrate breaking your fast, we wish you a meaningful Yom Kippur and a sweet year.
