rum baba
Syrup-soaked pastry
A rum baba is a small yeast cake soaked in rum syrup, often filled with whipped cream.
The cake is baked in a tall cylindrical mold, producing a distinctive mushroom shape.
French in origin, it appears on dessert menus at upscale restaurants: The rum baba was drenched in syrup and impossibly rich.
Also called baba au rhum.
Enriched French bread
- yeastFermenting fungus
- doughFlour-liquid mixture for baking
- bakedCooked by dry heat
- goldenBright yellow, or precious
cylinder · savarin · bundt · panettone · enriched · risen · proofed · ring-shaped
Thoroughly soaked through
- drenchedThoroughly wet throughout
- steepedSaturated by soaking
- infusedSaturated with flavor
- imbibedDrank, especially alcohol
moistened · doused · soaking · dipped · bathed · dunked · immersed · sodden
Tropical Atlantic region
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
- alcoholIntoxicating hydroxyl compound
- liquorDistilled alcoholic drink
- boozyAffected by drink
intoxicating · aromatic · barrel-aged · distilled · fermented · potent · Jamaican · overproof
brioche
Enriched French bread
golden · cylinder · savarin · bundt · panettone · enriched · risen · proofed · ring-shaped · individual
saturated
Thoroughly soaked through
imbibed · moistened · doused · soaking · dipped · bathed · dunked · immersed · sodden · dripping
Caribbean
Tropical Atlantic region
boozy · intoxicating · aromatic · barrel-aged · distilled · fermented · potent · Jamaican · overproof · Bacardi
syrup
Thick sugar liquid
caramelized · honeyed · sugary · vanilla · citrus · orange · lemon · zest · apricot · Chantilly
spongy
Soft and absorbent
fluffy · airy · light · pillowy · soft · bouncy · elastic · cushiony · yielding · puffy
- cakesbirthday cake, wedding cake, layer cake, chocolate cake, pound cake
- Classic Dessertsangel food cake, baked Alaska, Black Forest cake, Boston cream pie, bread pudding
- Boozy Cookingcoq au vin, beef bourguignon, boeuf bourguignon, chicken marsala, veal marsala
- pastriescroissant, danish, croissants, butter croissant, eclairs
rum bababiscotti
Crunchy Italian almond cookies
dry cake · shortbread · hardtack · rusks · meringue