Babas au Rhum

Name: Babas au Rhum
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 3 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour (15 ounces/425 grams); 1/4 cup, sugar (1 3/4 ounces/50 grams); 1 envelope, instant yeast (about 2 1/4 teaspoons); 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 1/2 cup, water, at room temperature; 4 , large eggs, beaten; 2 teaspoons, grated orange zest from 1 orange; 16 tablespoons, unsalted butter (2 sticks), cut into 16 pieces and softened but still cool; 1/2 cup, currants; 1 1/4 cups, water; 1/2 cup, sugar (3 1/2 ounces/99 grams); 1/2 cup, dark rum; 1/2 cup, apple jelly or apricot jelly, heated

Desserts or Baked Goods
French
Cakes
Holiday

Classically French, but far from fussy, these rum-soaked cakes are just the thing for holiday parties. How do you make them worthy of a celebration?

SERVES Makes 12 babas

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