Maple-Nut Coffee Twist
photo by sweetcakes
- Ready In:
- 3hrs 22mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 16
ingredients
-
Coffee Cake
- 3⁄4 cup milk
- 1⁄4 cup margarine or 1/4 cup butter
- 2 3⁄4 - 3 cups flour
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 ounce yeast, packet
- 1 teaspoon maple extract
- 1 egg
- 1⁄4 cup margarine or 1/4 cup butter, melted
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Filling
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1⁄3 cup chopped nuts
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon maple extract
-
Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons margarine or 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 -2 tablespoon milk
- 1⁄2 teaspoon maple extract
directions
- In a small saucepan, heat milk and margarine until very warm (120*-130*F).
- In large bowl, blend warm liquid, 1 cup flour, sugar, salt, yeast, extract and egg at low speed until moistened.
- Beat 2 minutes at medium speed.
- By hand, stir in remaining flour to form a soft dough.
- Knead on floured surface until smooth and elastic, about 2 minutes.
- Place dough in greased bowl; turn greased-side-up.
- Cover; let rise in warm place until light and doubled in size, 45 to 60 minutes.
- In small bowl, combine filling ingredients, set aside.
- Grease (not oil) 12-inch pizza pan.
- Punch down dough; divide and shape into 3 balls.
- On floured surface, roll or press 1 ball of dough to cover bottom of prepared pizza pan.
- Place in prepared pizza pan.
- Brush dough with about 1/3 of melted margarine; sprinkle with 1/3 Filling.
- Repeat layer of dough, melted margarine and Filling.
- To shape place a glass about 2 inches in diameter in center of dough, (a shot glass works perfectly)
- With pizza cutter, cut from outside edge to the glass, forming 16 pie-shaped wedges.
- Twist each wedge 5 times. Remove glass.
- Cover; let rise until light and doubled in size, 30 to 45 minutes.
- Heat oven to 375*F.
- Bake 18 to 22 minutes or until golden brown.
- Cool 5 minutes; remove from pan.
- In small bowl, blend Glaze ingredients until smooth. Drizzle over warm coffee cake.
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