Baba au Rhum — Cooks Without Borders

This recipe for the classic French dessert — a glazed, yeasted cake — is adapted from

Where shall we go? What shall we cook? Cooks Without Borders is Leslie Brenner's interactive, personal blog about cooking through the world's cuisines. In your kitchen, you're a citizen of the world. Cooks Without Borders features recipes, stories, photographs and cookbook reviews from Leslie Brenner, a cookbook author, former Los Angeles Times Food Editor, and currently restaurant critic at the Dallas Morning News, along with posts and recipes from guest bloggers. © 2015, 2016 by Leslie Brenner.

Crapanzano's original recipe calls for a 10- or 12-cup Bundt pan, with instructions to halve it it you’re using a Savarin mold or smaller Bundt pan. We found a lovely 6-cup Nordic Ware model, and that made a lovely size that serves 6, and adapted the recipe for that size. If you have a larger Bundt pan and bigger crowd, go ahead and double it.