Meaning & use
baba
A small, light cake made of yeast dough, traditionally soaked in a rum-flavored syrup.
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The bakery's rum baba was so moist it barely needed the syrup poured over it.
She learned to make baba from her grandmother's old Polish recipe.
A note on using this word
Baba, often called 'rum baba' or 'baba au rhum,' has roots in Eastern European and French pastry traditions.
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