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Baba au rhum [ babao'ʀɔm ] is a high round ring cake of sweet yeast dough that is soaked after baking with a mixture of sugar syrup and rum. The name of this French cake is probably borrowed from the Russian Babushka, short for Baba, grandmother '.

To prepare a slightly sweetened yeast dough with milk, eggs and butter is well proofed and baked in a cylindrical or Gugelhupfform first. Depending on the recipe of the dough also be raisins added. After cooling, the cake is repeatedly soaked with the liquid from sugar syrup and rum until it has completely soaked, which takes several hours. To refine it can be coated with hot apricot jam and finally a chocolate icing from chocolate and cream. Spread it to serve Baba au rhum with fruit salad or fresh fruit and lightly whipped cream is.

According to legend, Baba au rhum is an invention of the Polish king and duke of Lorraine Stanisław Leszczynski.

In the comics the Asterix series, a Roman camp is named " Babaorum ", a pun on the name of the French cup cake.