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Orange Rum Babas Recipe
Small yeasted cakes soaked with orange-rum syrup and topped with vanilla cream.
Inspired by The Great British Bake Off, Season 3, Episode 1
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Orange Rum Babas
- Prep
- 35 min
- Bake
- 18 min
- Total
- 53 min
- Makes
- 6 babas
Ingredients
- 200 g strong white bread flour
- 7 g instant yeast
- 25 g caster sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
- 2 large eggs
- 70 ml lukewarm milk
- 75 g unsalted butter, softened
- 150 g caster sugar
- 200 ml water
- Finely grated zest and juice of 1 orange
- 60 ml dark rum
- 150 ml double cream
Method
Mix the flour, yeast, first sugar amount, salt, eggs, and milk into a sticky dough. Beat in the butter gradually until glossy.
Divide among six well-buttered baba moulds, filling each halfway. Cover and rise until the dough nears the rims.
Heat the oven to 190 C, or 170 C fan, and bake for 16 to 18 minutes. Turn out onto a rack.
Boil the remaining sugar, water, orange zest, and juice for 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the rum.
Soak the warm babas in warm syrup, turning until heavy with syrup. Cool and serve with softly whipped cream.
From the episode
Cakes
This adaptation starts from the episode's cakes brief and reshapes it for ordinary home equipment and a manageable batch.
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The sources below document the episode challenge. The quantities and method on this page are independently written by Baking Show Guide; they are not copied from a contestant or broadcaster recipe.
