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Soft, cinnamon-scented bread with a ribbon of moist, lightly sweet pumpkin filling running through it. Add some hazelnut fragments and white chocolate and you’ve got fall baking heaven. Pumpkin hazelnut babka is the perfect treat to enjoy alongside a cup of tea.
Generally in baking, there are two ways to leaven (add a rising agent to) batter or dough–yeast or chemical leavening. Most of the time, when making something yeasted, you will probably use active dry or instant yeast, which are usually interchangeable, although they make take different amounts of time to proof initially. This type of yeast can be bought in a jar, a compressed cake, or in pre-measured packets.