Best 3 Swedish Coffee Cake Recipes

SWEDISH COFFEE CAKE RING

Steps:

• 1. Dissolve yeast in warm water in a large bowl. Stir in milk,sugar,butter,egg,nutmeg,cinnamon,salt,and 2 cups of flour. Beat until smooth.Stir in more remaining flour until dough is easy to handle.
• 2. NOTE; This recipe in designed to go with the almond paste recipe I have here. Do not use Solo Almond pastry filling. This Almond paste is not very sweet. If you are using a pastry filling with this recipe. rather than using my almond paste recipe.You have to adjust the butter and sugar in my recipe. Canned Almond filling is very sweet and syrupy. My recipe for almond paste is not.
• 3. Put dough on lightly floured surface.Knead dough until smooth and elastic.Put dough in a greased bowl. Cover and let rise until dough is doubled in size.about 1-2 hours.
• 4. Mean while make the almond filling.Just combine all ingredients for filling. stir really well.
• 5. punch down dough. Roll dough on floured surface in to a rectangle about 15 x 9 inches.Spread the filling over the dough.
• 6. Roll up tight rolling the 15 inch side.When you get to the end after rolling. Pinch the edge to seal it.With sealed edge down.Take the dough and stretch to make a circle on greased cookie sheet.
• 7. With scissors make cuts 2/3 of the way in to the ring about one inch apart.All the way around the ring.Take each section and turn it on it's side.It should look overlapped.
• 8. leave it to rise for about an hour. Heat oven to 350 degree's. Cover loosely with foil if it browns to fast. Bake for about 25-30 minutes until golden brown.
• 9. Make icing by mixing all ingredients together for icing. Drizzle icing on ring. Sprinkle with chopped walnuts, or sliced almonds, chopped Maraschino cherries, or pecans if desired.Not necessary, but yummy this way.
• 10. HOME MADE ALMOND PASTE: Blanche 1 1/2 cups of unsalted almonds. Boil some water in the microwave. Add almonds. wait about 5-10 minutes. Remove with slotted spoon. The skin should peel right off.Take the blanched almonds and put in a food processor with a 1/2 cup of the powdered sugar. Pulse until it is well mixed stopping the process now and then to incorporate.When the Almonds are nicely ground.Add the rest of the powdered sugar. Pulse until completely mixed. Add the beaten egg white,2 tbs butter,and almond extract. Pulse again until you have paste.If it is to sticky add more sugar a tablespoon at a time.Blend until smooth. Put in an air tight container and store in fridge up to 3 months.

SWEDISH CARDAMOM COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Grease a 9-inch tube or bundt pan with butter; dust with cookie crumbs, set aside.
• Combine flour and baking soda in a small bowl; set aside.
• Mix sugar and butter with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes; add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition, about 5 minutes total.
• Beat in cardamom and cinnamon; add flour mixture; beat until just combined; add sour cream, beat until smooth, about 1 minute.
• Pour batter into pan.
• Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 50 minutes.
• Let stand 5 minutes; turn out on a wire rack; cool completely.
• Dust with confectioners' sugar.

SWEDISH COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Dissolve yeast in 1/2 c lukewarm milk. Mix remaining milk, sugar, egg, salt, butter, seeds & small amt of flour. Beat smooth. Add yeast & remaining flour, beating w/ wooden spoon until firm and smooth. Sprinkle dough w/ small amount of flour, cover w/ clean towl and let rise in warm place until doubled in blulk, about 2 hrs Turn on lightly floured board & knead until smooth. Divide in 3; and 3 again. Roll with hands into ropes, braid. Put on buttered baking sheet, cover & let rise (1.5 hrs) Brush w/ slightly beaten egg. sprinkle w/ sugar hopped nuts and bake 350 for 15 - 20 mins.