French Coffee Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. and butter and flour a 9-inch round or square baking pan at least 2 inches deep.
• Make streusel:
• In a food processor pulse together streusel ingredients until combined well and crumbly.
• Make cake batter:
• In a bowl with an electric mixer beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy and add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, and vanilla. Sift in flour with baking powder and salt and beat until just combined.
• Spread cake batter in pan, smoothing top, and arrange plum slices over it in slightly overlapping concentric circles. Sprinkle streusel over plum slices and bake cake in middle of oven 1 hour, or until a tester comes out clean. Coffeecake may be made 1 week ahead: Cool cake completely in pan on a rack and freeze, wrapped well in plastic wrap and foil. Reheat cake, unwrapped but not thawed, in a preheated 350°F. oven until heated through, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool cake slightly on a rack and sift confectioners' sugar over it. Serve coffeecake warm or at room temperature.

Steps:

• Bring a kettle of water to boil. Pour the water into a 4- to 8-cup French coffee press to warm it while you grind your beans. Refill the kettle with 2 cups water and return to a boil.
• Grind the beans in a coffee grinder on the coarse setting; the ground coffee should resemble coarse sugar or sand. Coffee that is too finely ground will make your final product murky and give it an oily sheen and bitter flavor.
• Once the kettle comes to a boil, remove from the heat and let sit 30 seconds to reach the optimal temperature for French press. If it's too hot, it can cause the brew to taste burnt.
• Pour the hot water out of the French press. Put the measures coffee in the bottom. And 1 cup of the hot water, put on the top (but don't press) and let sit 1 minute.
• After 1 minute, gently stir with the handle of a wooden spoon to break up the layer of coffee on top. Pour in the remaining 1 cup hot water. Put the top on (but don't press) and let sit for an additional 3 to 4 minutes, depending on how strong you like your coffee. Taste is subjective, so experiment to find your own target time.
• Slowly push the plunger down to press the coffee grounds to the bottom of the pot. As a rule of thumb, if it is very difficult to press, your coffee is probably ground too fine. If it glides right down with no resistance, your grind is probably too coarse. There is a sweet spot of resistance somewhere in the middle.
• Serve right away with milk and sweetener if using. If you aren't sharing the pot and want to wait to have a second cup, it's best to transfer the coffee to a thermos or carafe. If you leave it in the press, it will continue to brew and can become too strong or bitter.

Steps:

• Sift flour, soda and baking powder together.
• Cream sugar and margarine together.
• and beat in eggs.
• Add 1/4 of flour mixture and 1/3 of sour cream; continue to alternate.
• and cream until blended.
• Add vanilla.
• Grease and flour loaf pan.
• Combine ingredients, pour 1/3 batter into pan.
• Sprinkle 1/2 filling over batter.
• Add another 1/3 batter and remaining filling.
• Cover with remaining batter.
• Marble with knife.
• Bake at 350F for 45-50 minute Dust with powdered sugar when cool.
• 12 servings.

Steps:

• Combine softened butter, pecans, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg for topping in a bowl. Put into a generously greased fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
• Mix milk, pecans, protein powder, eggs, melted butter, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a bowl until combined.
• Arrange bread slices standing up in the pan. Pour wet ingredients over top. Cover and refrigerate, 8 hours to overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Remove coffee cake from the refrigerator and uncover.
• Bake coffee cake in the preheated oven for 1 hour. Remove from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes. Invert cake over a wire rack or serving platter and shake gently to release.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the butter, sugar, egg yolks, milk, salt and 2 cups flour; beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. , Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour., For filling, combine the chocolate chips, milk and sugar in a saucepan; cook and stir over low heat until smooth. Stir in cinnamon; set aside. , For topping, combine the flour, sugar and cinnamon in a bowl; cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts. Set aside., Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; roll into an 18x10-in. rectangle. Spread with filling. Roll up jelly-roll style, starting with a long side; pinch seam to seal. Place in a well-greased 10-in. fluted tube pan, with seam facing inside of pan. Sprinkle with topping. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 30 minutes., Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes or until golden brown. Let stand for 10 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack to cool. Sprinkle with confectioners; sugar if desired.

Steps:

• COMBINE nuts with the 1/4 cup sugar and cinnamon; set aside.
• BLEND together flour, baking powder & soda; set aside. Cream butter with the 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Add dry ingredients and sour cream; beat until well blended (do not overbeat).
• POUR half batter into greased and lightly floured 9 inch square pan;
• Top with half of cinnamon-nut mixture. Cover with remaining batter; top with last of cinnamon-nut mixture.
• Bake at 375° for 30 minutes or until golden brown.