The first time I tasted a baba au rhum was in pastry school. We had been learning the French classics such as éclairs and St-Honoré, and eventually tackled this bread-like cake, heavily infused with a ...

Of all the desserts that you could set on fire, you may never have considered the baba au rhum. Here’s the thing: While you can flambé pretty much any confection that’s soaked in a high-proof spirit, ...

This week, satisfy your sweet (and boozy) tooth with executive pastry chef Paola Velez’s Baba au Rhum Punch! Paola shows us how to make a baba dough, a rum punch coulis (fruit puree), and pectin from ...

For Father’s Day this year, The Forward presents to you a recipe from the archives that originally appeared in the Forverts in 1979. Longtime Forverts columnist Tsirl Steingart printed this recipe in ...