Cooking Tips Recipes :: Coffee Cake Recipes

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Mention coffee cake and images of Grandma?s house chilling out the table which has a fresh baked streusel cake and a lot of family chatter. It?s doubtful a large number of of the cakes considered coffee cake today actually contain coffee. Some recipes do and several don?t. Many think about crumb cake served with coffee a coffee cake and some insist how the recipe contain coffee to be considered a coffee cake.

History

The coffee cake since it is today can be an evolution across serious amounts of continents. Cakes happen to be being baked because the Biblical times honey cakes. Next came what is generally known as the fruitcake, a culinary invention with the French referred to as galettes. These same galettes triggered sweetened yeast breads or rolls which finally evolved into Danish coffee cakes that have been made with coffee.

As time progressed and recipes changed and were transferred there were inevitable alterations. Perhaps more coffee was added as well as taken out as a whole. By the time the late 1800?s rolled throughout the coffee cake was obviously a household name in America with hundreds and hundreds of recipes and variations primarily being either streusel, crumb or streusel-crumb combination.

Today?s coffee cake hasn?t changed a whole lot from those on the late 1800?s. The recipes are already changed there are literally countless variations, but overall, will still be either a crumb cake or maybe a streusel cake or some combination. Add pot of piping hot coffee no one really cares just what it?s called.

Following are two recipes for quick yet scrumptious coffee cakes. Bake one up and gather the family unit together and swap stories while enjoying great food and also greater company.

Simply Cinnamon Coffee Cake

* 1 cup sugar
* 2 eggs
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* Dash of salt
* ? cup butter
* ? cup shortening
* 1 small can evaporated milk
Topping
* 1 teaspoon cinnamon
* ? cup sugar, when combined the cinnamon
* ? cup chopped pecans or walnuts, if desired

In a large best super bowl recipes appetizers, cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs, flour, baking powder, salt, and milk. Pour one half of batter into greased 8x8 inch pan. Sprinkle with half the cinnamon and sugar mixture. Pour remaining batter into pan and sprinkle with all the other half on the cinnamon and sugar mixture. Add chopped nuts, if desired. Bake in 350-degree oven first hour or until toothpick inserted near center happens clean. Serves 10-12.

Chocolate Swirl Coffee Cake

* 1 cup sugar
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* ? teaspoon salt
* 3 eggs
* 1 cup sour cream
* 2 teaspoons vanilla
* ? pound butter
* 1 small can or bottle chocolate syrup

Topping

* 1 teaspoon cinnamon
* ? cup sugar, combined with the cinnamon

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs individually, stirring until fully blended. Combine dry ingredients and increase creamed mixture alternately with sour cream. Add vanilla and blend until smooth. Pour mixture into greased 8x12 inch pan. Cut chocolate syrup into batter in pan (using knife to reduce into a decorative pattern). Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar topping. Bake in 375-degree oven for 35 minutes. Serves 10-12.