Maple Sunburst Coffee Cake Recipes

MAPLE SUNBURST COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• In large bowl, combine 1 1/2 cups flour, sugar, salt and yeast.
• In small saucepan, heat milk and butter until very warm (120F to 130F) Add milk mixture and eggs to flour mxiture.
• Blend at low speed for 3 minutes.
• Beat at medium speed 3 more minutes.
• With spoon, stir in remaining flour until dough is stiff; place in greased bowl and cover and let rise until doubled, 1 1/2 hours.
• Combine filling ingredients.
• Divide dough into 2 parts; roll each out to a 12-inch round.
• Place one round on greased 12-inch pizza pan.
• Spread with filling and place the second round on top and seal edges.
• Make 5-inch cuts, 1-inch apart all around the coffe cake from outside edges; twist each strip.
• Let rise 1 hour until light.
• Bake at 350F for 25-30 minutes until golden.
• Combine glaze ingredients.
• Drizzle over warm cake.

MAPLE TWIST COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm milk. Add the butter, sugar, egg, maple flavoring, salt and 1-1/2 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, 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. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the sugar, walnuts, cinnamon and maple flavoring; set aside. , Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide into thirds. Roll each portion into a 12-in. circle; place 1 circle on a greased baking sheet or 12-in. baking pan. Spread with a third of the butter; sprinkle with a third of the filling. Repeat layers twice. Pinch edges of dough to seal., Carefully place a glass in center of circle. With scissors, cut from outside edge just to the glass, forming 16 wedges. Remove glass; twist each wedge 5 or 6 times. Pinch ends to seal and tuck under. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30 minutes., Bake at 375° until golden brown, 18-20 minutes. In a small bowl, combine glaze ingredients; set aside. Carefully remove coffee cake from pan by running a metal spatula under it to loosen; transfer to a wire rack. Drizzle with glaze.

MAPLE HUCKLEBERRY COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350F degrees, rack in the middle. Butter a 1-pound loaf pan, and line with parchment paper. Alternately, you could just butter and flour the pan,.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, salt, thyme, and rosemary. Set aside.
• In a separate large bowl beat the butter with an electric mixer or by hand - until light and fluffy.
• Drizzle in the maple syrup and beat until well incorporated, scrape down the sides of the bowl a couple times along the way.
• Beat in the egg, lemon zest, and vanilla extract, scraping the sides again. Add half of the flour, stir just a bit, now add a splash of the buttermilk, stir again, but not too much.
• Add the rest of the flour and stir a bit, and now the rest of the buttermilk. Stir until everything barely comes together and then very gently fold in one cup of the huckleberries. Scrape the batter evenly into the prepared pan and set aside.
• To make the streusel topping, place the flour, butter, maple sugar, thyme and pecans in a food processor and pulse 20-30 times or until the topping is a bit beyond sandy/crumbly. It should be moist-looking - on its way to being slightly doughy.
• Crumble 2/3 of it over the cake batter, sprinkle the remaining 1/3 cup huckleberries on top of that, and then add the last of the crumble. Barely pat in place with your fingertips.
• Place the coffee cake in the oven and bake for 45-50 minutes or until the top is golden and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Let the cake cool for five minutes and then remove it from the pan to cool on a rack (this way the cake won't steam in the pan as it's cooling.

LEMON-PECAN SUNBURST COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375ºF.
• Grease a 9-inch round cake pan.
• Separate the biscuit dough into 8 biscuits.
• Place 1 biscuit in the center of the pan.
• Cut the remaining biscuits in half, forming 14 half-circles.
• Arrange these pieces around the center biscuit in a sunburst pattern, with all the cut sides facing in the same direction. I overlapped the circle sides and let the flat sides rest on the bottom of the pan.
• In a small bowl, combine the pecans, granulated sugar, and lemon zest; mix well.
• Brush the tops of the biscuits with the melted butter and sprinkle with the pecan mixture.
• Bake 20-25 min, or until golden brown.
• Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, cream cheese, and enough lemon juice to make a pourable glaze; beat until smooth.
• Drizzle the glaze over the warm coffee cake.
• Let stand for 10 min, or just until the glaze is set.
• Serve warm.