St James Coffee Cake Recipes

COFFEE COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grease and lightly flour a 10 inch fluted tube pan.
• In a bowl whisk together coffee, sugar, oil, honey, vinegar and vanilla.
• Add eggs; whisk until combined.
• In another bow combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, soda, salt and nutmeg.
• Whisk in coffee mixture until combined. Add 1 cup hazelnuts; stir to combine. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated over about 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted near centre comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on wire rack for 20 minutes.
• Remove from pan to serving plattewr. Brush with some of the coffee-hazelnut syrup.
• Cool for 30 minutes. Brush again with syrup.
• Sprinkle with the 1/4 cup hazelnuts.
• Serve cake warm with remaining syrup.

CINNAMON COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and 2 cups sugar until light fluffy. Add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda and salt; add alternately with sour cream, beating just enough after each addition to keep batter smooth. , Spoon a third of batter into a greased 10-in. tube pan. Combine cinnamon, nuts and remaining sugar; sprinkle a third over batter in pan. Repeat layers 2 more times. Bake at 350° for 60-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 15 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.

ST. JAMES COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a medium bowl, combine the flour, sugar and spices.
• Cut or rub in the butter until the mixture resembles corn meal.
• Reserve 1/2 cup of the mixture.
• In a second bowl, combine the buttermilk and baking soda.
• Pour this into the remaining crumb mixture in halves, beating thoroughly after each addition.
• Stir in the raisins and nuts.
• Spread the batter into a greased and floured 9x13 pan.
• Sprinkle the reserved crumb mixture over the top.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour until brown and springy when touched or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
• Enjoy!