Usually the pictures I take look pretty bad, but these came out ok. I got the recipe from King Arthur Flour http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/shortcut-russenzopf-recipe. I used the brioche recipe from Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Bread Bible, the ultimate full flavor variation. I think I would like to try to make babka for Easter with dried apricots, dried sour cherries, and some cinnamon with this method. I grew up with the dried fruit kind of babka, not the chocolate kind that everyone makes now.
From the top
And of course, the interior
That looks just yummy! Do you deliver?