Boston Coffee Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Melt butter, add milk and heat the mixture gently to 38°C.
• Crumble the yeast into the milk mixture, whip lightly to dissolve.
• Add salt, sugar and cardamom.
• Gradually add the flour: stir first with a wooden spoon, then knead into smooth, elastic dough that no longer sticks to the bowl nor to your hand.
• Cover and let rise until doubled in size (about 30 minutes).
• Preheat oven to 200 C and grease a 24 cm round cake pan with a removable bottom.
• Lightly flour the baking board and turn the dough on it.
• Roll the dough out into a rectangle, 40 cm x 45 cm or so.
• Spread the softened butter on the dough; combine the remaining filling ingredients and sprinkle on top of the butter.
• Roll the dough up starting from the longer side and cut into appr. 4 cm pieces.
• Place the pieces into the prepared pan on their side, and quite close to each other; cover and let rise until doubled (about 30 minutes).
• Brush the top with the beaten egg and sprinkle pearl sugar on top of the cake.
• Bake in the preheated oven for about 30 minutes, or until golden brown.
• Cover while cooling.
• You can omit the pearl sugar if you want: just brush the cake with egg before baking and drizzle some powdered sugar icing on top of the cake once it has cooled.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and 2 cups sugar until light fluffy. Add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda and salt; add alternately with sour cream, beating just enough after each addition to keep batter smooth. , Spoon a third of batter into a greased 10-in. tube pan. Combine cinnamon, nuts and remaining sugar; sprinkle a third over batter in pan. Repeat layers 2 more times. Bake at 350° for 60-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 15 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.