"night Before Christmas" Coffee Cake
"This is a wonderful coffee cake to share with your friends and neighbors -"
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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1 9x13 coffee cake
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1⁄4 cup butter
- 2 beaten eggs
- 1⁄2 cup warm milk
- 2 teaspoons bulk yeast, dissolved in 3 Tbsp. warm water
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
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TOPPING
- 2⁄3 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 4 tablespoons melted butter
- 1⁄2 cup nuts
- 1⁄2 cup maraschino cherry, candied red and greeen cherries
directions
- Cream together sugar and butter. Then add eggs, milk, yeast (dissolved in 3 tablespoons warm water), flour, salt and vanilla. Beat all of these ingredients together. Then set dough aside and let it rise, until double in size.
- When your coffee cake dough has risen to double the size (this may take about 2 hours) put it in a 9x13-inch greased pan and spread wirh topping;.
- Combine sugar, cinnamon, melted butter, nuts and cherries. Now place in a cold oven and leave it in there overnight to rise.
- The next morning turn oven to 350F and bake for 1/2 hour. Take out and serve warm.
- This makes a large coffee cake or you can put the dough in two round pans instead.
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