Swedish Cardamom Coffee Cake Recipes

SWEDISH CARDAMOM BRAIDS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the milk, butter, sugar, egg yolks, cardamom, salt and 3 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., Punch dough down; divide in half. Divide each half into three portions. On a lightly floured surface, shape each portion into a 16-in.-long rope. Place three ropes on a greased baking sheet and braid; pinch ends to seal and tuck under. Repeat with remaining dough. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 45 minutes. , Bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks. Brush warm loaves with butter. Combine the pecans, sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over loaves.

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:

• Cake:.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Cream together butter and sugar, add egg yolks gradually.
• Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into the batter. Stir.
• Add milk, vanilla, lemon juice and lemon rind. Stir.
• Beat egg whites until stiff. Fold into batter.
• Pour into 13x9 baking pan.
• Top with crumb topping and bake for 40 minutes or until tester comes out clean.
• Crumb topping:.
• Mix dry ingredients together.
• Cut in the butter with a pastry blender or the back of a fork until it resembles crumbs.
• Scatter crumbs over unbaked cake.

SPICY CARDAMOM COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Cake: Cream together sugar and butter until fluffy.
• Beat eggs in one at a time.
• Add vanilla.
• Stir in the baking powder, soda, salt, and Cardamom.
• Stir in the floor one cup at a time, adding sour cream and milk as you go along.
• Topping: In a separate bowl mix together the"topping" ingredients.
• To Assemble: You can bake this in a few different style pans.
• A bundt cake pan would work well.
• I used two tall round 8" cake pans.
• Oil your pans well.
• Pour the batter in your pans- be sure to leave some room at the top as these cakes should rise.
• Sprinkle the top with your topping.
• Alteration: Instead of sprinkling the topping over the cake, you might prefer to pour half your batter in the pan, create an inside layer by sprinkling in some of your topping and then pour the remaining batter in your pan and sprinkle the rest of the nut mixture over the top.
• You can always whip up some more topping if you need to!
• To Bake: Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
• This is a dense cake and will bake for about an hour (in a bundt cake pan).
• Keep checking on it by inserting a knife in the top.
• If it comes out clean, it's done.
• To Serve: Let the cake cool for a while (at least half an hour).
• Turn the cake over and slide onto a plate (if you have used a bundt cake pan).
• If you used a cake pan, loosen the edges of the cake pan with a knife, gently easing the cake up out of the pan.
• If you need to, turn the cake over and gently tap it out of the pan, once the cake is out of the pan you can turn it back over onto a plate for presentation.

CARDAMOM COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• To make the topping: Mix together the almonds, 3 tablespoons brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, cardamom and melted butter with a fork until crumbly.
• To make the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Sift together 2 cups flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and baking soda and set aside.
• Cream together the softened butter and 1 cup brown sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add the eggs, one at a time and beat well between additions.
• Beat in the vanilla.
• Add the dry ingredients in thirds to the creamed mixture, alternating with the sour cream, beating in between additions and ending with dry ingredients.
• Scrape down the sides and beat for 1 more minute.
• Grease the bottom and sides of an 8-inch springform pan.
• Pour half of the batter into the pan and sprinkle with half of the almond mixture.
• Pour the remaining batter into the pan, spreading it out if necessary.
• Top with the remaining almond mixture.
• Bake for 50 to 60 minutes on the middle rack.
• The cake is done when a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean.
• Leave the cake in the pan and cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes.
• Remove from the pan and cool completely.