Sweet on Trader Joe's Saturday: Chocolate Brooklyn Babka (2024)

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How much is Trader Joe's chocolate Brooklyn babka? ›

Trader Joe's describes this as "a sweet rich pastry layered with chocolate." An 18-ounce babka costs $4.99. In our Trader Joe's, I've seen this come and go. It's always right by the first register and nowhere else in the store that I have seen. Keep your eyes peeled.

Trader Joe's Chocolate Brooklyn Babka (0.11 cake) contains 32g total carbs, 30g net carbs, 12g fat, 4g protein, and 250 calories.

Trader Joe's Cinnamon Brooklyn Babka is a zesty, swirly, brioche-meets-cake loaf rooted in Eastern European Jewish traditions.

It can be served room temperature, warm with a scoop of ice cream on top, or even cold right out of the fridge the following day for breakfast. Coffee and tea make for perfect accompaniments.

But it'll be just as good at room temperature too. This loaf of chocolate babka doesn't last very long in our house, which is why I always make TWO at a time. You can keep the loaf in an air-tight container and in the fridge (or a cool, dry area) for about 5 days. However I prefer to store my extra loaf in the freezer.

Our babkas are baked daily and, if you can resist eating them, will stay delicious for up to 5 days after purchase. To hold longer than 5 days, wrap the packaged babka in aluminum foil and freeze for up to 1 month. To defrost, remove from the freezer, recycle the aluminum foil and thaw at room temperature.

A healthier Babka

Now a days you and easily find them in most supermarkets and bakeries as a yummy chocolate yeast cake. However like all cakes they are packed with sugar, and other ingredients that make them delicious yet no so healthy.

Trader Joe's Chocolate Brooklyn Babka is now O/U pareve certified. This product is Pas Yisroel and Yoshon.

She also writes the food newsletter, Specialty. In late 2022, a study in Consumer Reports claimed that dark chocolate from Trader Joe's and many other brands, including Dove, Lindt, and Hershey's, contained unsafe levels of lead, as well as cadmium.

In the early nineteenth century in Poland, housewives would spread the extra dough from the egg challah they made for Shabbat with jam, cinnamon or raisins and bake it along with the challah to make the precursor to what we have come to know as babka.

Do you eat babka for breakfast? ›

You can eat it as dessert or breakfast, as a brunch side or a quick snack. The only trouble is not finishing a loaf as soon as you start it, because one good bite of babka demands another.

Chocolate Babka is a sweet, swirly, cake loaf rooted in Eastern European Jewish traditions. Trader Joe's Chocolate Babka is made for them by a small, kosher bakery in Brooklyn that literally grew out of a grandmother's kitchen.

: a sweet bread made with yeast and butter: a. : a sweet bread that contains various fillings (as of chocolate, cinnamon, or poppy seeds), is typically rolled and twisted before baking in a loaf pan, and is often topped with streusel.

To my friend who posted on February 19: Your dough is dry because kneading for 16-20 minutes is WAY too long. Babka is delicate, not at all like regular bread dough and should not be kneaded but for maybe 30 seconds to combine the softened butter as the last step (far less than even this recipe recommends).

Price: Green's babka reaches $8.95 at Zabar's and over $10 at Whole Foods (sold under those stores' labels), so look for their loaves labeled as Green's, not a store brand; those are only $5.99 for 20 ounces.

A Trader Joe's 24-ounce kringle costs $9.99, so this is a seasonal treat that can feed a crowd and won't break the bank. For those of you who bemoan that there isn't a Trader Joe's near you, don't worry. O&H also sells their pumpkin kringles online and will ship directly to your home for $23.99.

Unless you grew up in a Jewish or Eastern European household, a chocolate babka leaves room for intrigue. Based on my own experiences of squeezing a loaf or two into duffel bags and carry-ons, it's a tried and tested travel-friendly gift.