Dessert recipes: the perfect baba – part II

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The recipe of one of the most traditional dessert of Naples: the baba – Part II. After the leavening phase, in this video, Master Pastry Chef Sabatino Sirica shows us how to pour the dough into the molds and leavening and baking times.
After 3/4 of an hour’s rising, the dough needs to be poured into molds (which can be different) and rise for approximately 1-1.5 hours. Subsequently, molds should be placed in the oven at a temperature of 210°C for 10 minutes.

So… let’s see what we have… what we have on the table… There are so many kinds of baba… Let’s see… we have this… this original baba… the traditional baba cake, this smooth and this curly one. We have this one that comes in paste form, And we have the small ones.

Now, let me fill the molds… .. okay… … you see how dry the dough is in spite of the liquid there is inside… there are two or three ways to fill… the molds, Now… Let me show you this one. Always fill 1/3 of the dough into molds,

Because the other two-thirds needs to rise. And the fourth part… needs to rise in the oven. And the other way to make these… …to prepare these little shapes with two fingers… needs to be done with the small molds in… in the palm of your hand, It needs to be taken with two fingers.

And we’re through with… the part of… Then let’s wait for… for…it to grow and then let’s bake it. Now let’s take it out of the oven. These are the small… the small ones. And these are the regular… babà… These are the big big ones. So now let’s dip the babas….

Let’s prepare the syrup. So, for the syrup for babas we need: 1 liter of water, 500 grams of sugar and 50 grams of rum. Now, let’s dip the babas. Now can you can see me pressing… This… this baba, can you see? And again it gets back to perfection. You see, it still needs…

To be dipped again, because… bubbles are still coming out. So, by doing so, I hope to tempt all those that will see…. this video. Now let me eat this baba that… now without meaning to sound presumptuous is in any case a high quality product.