Pumpkin Babka, My Favorite Babka Recipe Yet -

This recipe from Domestic Gothess is really great. It will be my new go-to! Just watch it all unfold below.

Firstly, I don’t have instant yeast on hand… because I have a huge thing of active dry yeast I have been using since the “lockdowns.” So I have to activate it myself, a step I really enjoy doing. Here it is all frothy and ready to make an awesome dough.

Stand-up maker makes things way easier

First proof! My tip is to put oven on for the lowest possible temperature and leave the door open. Let the bowl sit in oven covered. When too much heat is lost, I then close the oven door to let it stay in that sweet spot. My dough always rises amazingly doing this.

I let it sit in the fridge overnight. I don’t usually do this. When I put it in it was at the very brim of the bowl, touching the oiled plastic wrap. When I woke up it had retracted a bit. There’s always the final proof!