Swedish Coffee Ring Recipes

SWEDISH TEA RING

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the sugar, oil, egg whites, salt and 1 cup flour; beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. , Turn onto a lightly floured surface; knead until smooth, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a bowl coated with cooking spray, turning once to coat the top. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour. , Combine the walnuts, cherries, brown sugar and cinnamon; set aside. Punch dough down; roll into an 18x12-in. rectangle. Brush with butter; sprinkle with nut mixture to within 1/2 in. of edges. Roll up jelly-roll style, starting with a long side; pinch seam to seal. , Place seam side down on a 14-in. pizza pan coated with cooking spray; pinch ends together to form a ring. With scissors, cut from outside edge two-thirds of the way toward center of ring at scant 1-in. intervals. Separate strips slightly; twist to allow filling to show. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 40 minutes., Bake at 400° for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pan to a wire rack to cool. , In a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar and enough milk to achieve desired consistency; drizzle over tea ring.

SWEDISH COFFEE CAKE RING

Steps:

• 1. Dissolve yeast in warm water in a large bowl. Stir in milk,sugar,butter,egg,nutmeg,cinnamon,salt,and 2 cups of flour. Beat until smooth.Stir in more remaining flour until dough is easy to handle.
• 2. NOTE; This recipe in designed to go with the almond paste recipe I have here. Do not use Solo Almond pastry filling. This Almond paste is not very sweet. If you are using a pastry filling with this recipe. rather than using my almond paste recipe.You have to adjust the butter and sugar in my recipe. Canned Almond filling is very sweet and syrupy. My recipe for almond paste is not.
• 3. Put dough on lightly floured surface.Knead dough until smooth and elastic.Put dough in a greased bowl. Cover and let rise until dough is doubled in size.about 1-2 hours.
• 4. Mean while make the almond filling.Just combine all ingredients for filling. stir really well.
• 5. punch down dough. Roll dough on floured surface in to a rectangle about 15 x 9 inches.Spread the filling over the dough.
• 6. Roll up tight rolling the 15 inch side.When you get to the end after rolling. Pinch the edge to seal it.With sealed edge down.Take the dough and stretch to make a circle on greased cookie sheet.
• 7. With scissors make cuts 2/3 of the way in to the ring about one inch apart.All the way around the ring.Take each section and turn it on it's side.It should look overlapped.
• 8. leave it to rise for about an hour. Heat oven to 350 degree's. Cover loosely with foil if it browns to fast. Bake for about 25-30 minutes until golden brown.
• 9. Make icing by mixing all ingredients together for icing. Drizzle icing on ring. Sprinkle with chopped walnuts, or sliced almonds, chopped Maraschino cherries, or pecans if desired.Not necessary, but yummy this way.
• 10. HOME MADE ALMOND PASTE: Blanche 1 1/2 cups of unsalted almonds. Boil some water in the microwave. Add almonds. wait about 5-10 minutes. Remove with slotted spoon. The skin should peel right off.Take the blanched almonds and put in a food processor with a 1/2 cup of the powdered sugar. Pulse until it is well mixed stopping the process now and then to incorporate.When the Almonds are nicely ground.Add the rest of the powdered sugar. Pulse until completely mixed. Add the beaten egg white,2 tbs butter,and almond extract. Pulse again until you have paste.If it is to sticky add more sugar a tablespoon at a time.Blend until smooth. Put in an air tight container and store in fridge up to 3 months.

SWEDISH TEA RING

Steps:

• In a bread machine, put milk, egg, butter, sugar, salt, bread flour, and yeast in the order suggested by the manufacturer. Select the Dough cycle and press Start. When dough is mixed, transfer to a greased bowl; cover with plastic wrap and let rise until doubled, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• Grease 2 baking sheets or line them with parchment paper; set aside.
• Divide dough in half. Roll each piece out into rectangles about 12x16 inches. Spread each dough rectangle with 1 tablespoon softened butter. In a small bowl, combine 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon, 3/4 cup light brown sugar, and 1/2 cup raisins.
• Sprinkle cinnamon mixture onto buttered dough. Roll them up jelly-roll fashion, along long side. Pinch edges to seal. Stretch and twist into rings, pinching ends to seal. Place them seam-side down onto prepared baking sheets. Using clean scissors, cut 2/3 way of the way through the loaf at about 1-inch intervals. Spread each cut slightly. you wish to
• [At this point, the dough can be refrigerated: cover dough with greased plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. The next morning, let pastries come to room temperature for about half an hour before baking as directed in step 7.]
• Alternately, cover each ring with a clean towel or greased plastic wrap and let loaves rise until double, about 40 minutes.
• Arrange two oven racks so that both baking sheets will fit. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Bake for 10 minutes in preheated; rotate baking sheets. Bake until rings are light brown and the filling is oozing and bubbling, about 10 minutes more.
• In a small mixing bowl, combine confectioners sugar, almond extract, and milk until icing is desired consistency. Drizzle icing over warm pastries.

SWEDISH COFFEE RING

Steps:

• * Soften yeast in warm water stir in 1/2 teaspoon sugar. In large mixing bowl, combine 1/3 cup sugar, butter or margarine, salt and scalded milk cool to lukewarm. Blend in egg, mashed potatoes and yeast. Gradually add flour to form a stiff dough, beating well after each addition. Knead on floured surface 3 to 5 minutes. Place in greased bowl, turning dough to grease all sides. Cover let rise in warm place (85° to 90° F) until doubled, about 1 hour. Punch dough down. Cover. Store in refrigerator at least 2 hours (not over 3 days). When ready to bake, punch dough down, divide in 2 portions and mold into balls roll out each portion into an 18 x 10-inch rectangle. Brush each with 1 tablespoon melted butter or margarine. Prepare following filling. Filling:*Sprinkle each rectangle with filling. Place a sheet of wax paper over the sprinkled dough roll with rolling pin over the paper to push the filling into the dough. Remove wax paper. Roll as for a jelly roll, starting with 18-inch side. Place each roll on a greased baking sheet shape into a ring, overlapping the ends. Snip sections with kitchen scissors 1 1/2 inches apart, cutting each to within 1 inch of center. Turn each cut section slightly to one side to form a wreath Let rise in warm place until doubled, about 45 minutes. Bake in a preheated 350° F oven for 25 to 30 minutes, until golden brown. When cool prepare Almond Glaze, below:Almond Glaze:*Combine all ingredients and blend until smooth. Dribble over coffee ring.Note: This can also be made in 2 greased 6 1/2 -cup ring molds and the top snipped with scissors.