Hold onto your kishkes: babka ice cream sandwiches are a thing
Ice cream sandwiches are traditional summer treats, but it's time to take the sweet 'wich into the autumn months.
Because...babka ice cream sandwiches.
Babka is a traditional Eastern European Jewish treat. It is made with sweet, yeasted dough twisted with chocolate or cinnamon fillings. It's enough to see it on your bubbe's Sunday morning breakfast buffet...
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But now that it's getting ice cream sandwiched, babka is positively droolworthy.
On the east coast, Russ and Daughters Café serves homemade babka ice cream between slices of homemade babka. The eatery has been serving them since December 2015, but now the confection is really catching on.
In Washington, D.C., the vanilla/chocolate babka ice cream sandwich (babka sourced from Brooklyn) served by stall On Rye (a restaurant slated to open late 2016) is available to lucky National Parks Stadium suite ticket holders.
Even home chefs are taking their skills to the babka ice cream world.
The internet is wild for this delicacy and it's easy to see why.
The end of summer never seemed so sweet.
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Sarah Spigelman Richter is a contributor to Mashable's Food channel. Sarah covers everything edible, from the food industry to D.I.Y. recipes. She was previously the community manager for Tastemade NYC and her writing has been seen on The Today Show's food blog, Refinery 29, the Food Network, and Gothamist. She has also developed recipes for Tabasco and other nationally recognized brands and has blogged for 5 years at "Fritos and Foie Gras." Sarah is obsessed with "Orphan Black" and chili-cheese Fritos and is still depressed that Loehmann's closed.
