{"id":16321,"date":"2012-12-10T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T23:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/?p=16321"},"modified":"2012-12-10T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T23:21:44","slug":"chocolate-babka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=16321","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Babka."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/seinfeld-chocolatebabka-jewish.jpg\" alt=\"seinfeld the dinner party jewish chocolate babka\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I baked this chocolate babka over the weekend, and it tasted exactly like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/user_local_photos?select=9X64Sfm__Vc-eUsKqrD9cQ&#038;userid=qhIKkB6ib8rUSgej3yIRTQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chocolate strudel<\/a> from Extraordinary Desserts! Even with my new stand mixer, food processor, and Pammie&#8217;s forearms, it took <em>hours<\/em> to make. I&#8217;m pretty sure time started moving backwards as I waited for this shit to rise (twice!). I literally pulled them out of the oven at 2am and was too tired to have my way with it till morning.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Martha Stewart&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/smittenkitchen.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/mmm-bab-bee-bab-ka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recipe<\/a> if you have two pounds of chocolate and five sticks of butter laying around. This recipe yields three loaves, so I think you should make some and share it with your neighbors. Especially if you live near me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I baked this chocolate babka over the weekend, and it tasted exactly like the chocolate strudel from Extraordinary Desserts! Even with my new stand mixer, food processor, and Pammie&#8217;s forearms, it took hours to make. I&#8217;m pretty sure time started moving backwards as I waited for this shit to rise (twice!). I literally pulled them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}