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Gather the ingredients. While the babas are cooling, make the rum soaking syrup. In a medium saucepan set over medium heat, bring the water and sugar to a boil for 5 to 10 minutes, until the syrup has thickened. Remove the syrup from the heat and stir the rum and vanilla extract into the mixture.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 2 liter baba pan OR a 9 inch Bundt pan. In a large bowl, combine eggs, oil, superfine sugar and vanilla sugar. Beat on high speed for about 5 minutes. Beat in flour. Reserve approximately 1/4 cup of batter and set aside. Pour remaining batter into prepared pan.
A little later the Julien Brothers, famous 19th century pastry chefs, reinterpreted the baba cake and cooked it in a ring mold. They named this cake a savarin, in memory of the renowned gastronomic philosopher, Brillat-Savarin (1725-1826).
While attributed to France, baba au rhum (also called rum baba) actually has origins in Poland, where tall, round yeast cakes were called babka, meaning old woman or grandmother. Baba is the diminutive of babka. When the French created these small, rum-soaked cakes in the early 1800’s, the rum baba was born. How do you eat baba au rhum?
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