Chocolate Hazelnut Babka

"This Chocolate Hazelnut Babka is filled with gooey melted chocolate and crunchy hazelnuts. It’s the perfect Easter treat! Growing up in the South, I’d never really heard of babka until I moved to the North. Sure, I’d seen the Seinfeld episode where Jerry and Elaine go to the bakery to buy a chocolate babka, only to see the last one sold to the customers right in front of them. They ended up settling for the cinnamon babka, which Jerry called a “lesser babka.” But, I didn’t fully understand the humor of this situation until I moved to New York. That’s when I realized that babkas may as well be the state’s official bread…especially in the Spring. These sweet loaves of bread literally show up everywhere in the weeks leading up to Easter!"