London’s best Babka

Babka is an Eastern European cake that’s dense, satisfying and perfect for sharing. From traditional chocolate flavours to an Israeli pretzel version, here are London’s sweetest.

Swap your Sunday morning croissant for a chocolate Babka at Rinkoff’s, which serves its special yeast cake as a treat at weekends.

£3.60, 224 Jubilee Street, E1, rinkoffbakery.co.uk

This sweet spot makes an elegantly twisted Babka with sourdough and fills it with French butter and Valrhona Manjari Chocolate. Choose from two sizes, depending how restrained you are feeling.

From £9.60, 121 East End Road, N2, margotbakery.co.uk

This perennially packed Stoke Newington institution run by a former Ottolenghi chef does a good line in seasonal babka, also available at its new Soho branch. They’re sold out on the website but try a slice of fruit-studded Christmas babka in the café.

From £4, across London, thegoodeggn16.com

Tel-Aviv inspired restaurant Bala Baya serves Babka pretzels in its in-house bakery. Choose from pistachio, chocolate and rose, caramel, peanut and sea salt or cinnamon sugar.

£3.20, 229 Union Street, SE1, balabaya.co.uk

Monty’s Deli takes the sweetness up a notch with its sugar-crusted chocolate chip Babka served with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream.

£5, 227-229 Hoxton Street, N1, montys-deli.com