Coffee cake

Coffee cake

Coffee cake
Type Cake
Cookbook: Coffee cake  Media: Coffee cake
Cranberry coffee cake

Coffee cake is a sponge cake flavoured with coffee.[1] They are generally round and consist of two layers separated by coffee flavoured butter icing, which also covers the top of the cake. Walnuts are a common addition to coffee cakes.[2] In the United States, coffee cake generally refers to a sweet cake intended to be eaten with coffee or tea (like tea cake). The use of the term "coffee cake" to refer to a accompaniment for coffee derives from the German and Scandinavian use of "kaffeekuchen" or "kaffekage" as a cake offered to guests as a gesture of hospitality, or served as a brunch food, with coffee, and is the most common usage in the United States due to the influence of German and Scandinavian immigrants.[3][4]

Coffee cakes, as an accompaniment for coffee, are often single layer, flavored with either fruit or cinnamon, and leavened with either baking soda (or baking powder), which results in a more cake-like texture, or yeast, which results in a more bread-like texture. Sour cream is used in traditional American coffee cakes to both impart a tart flavor and activate baking soda used as a leavening agent.[5]

Varieties

Applesauce cake

Applesauce cake is sometimes prepared and served as a coffee cake.[6][7]

Arany galuska

In Hungary, there is a type of coffee cake called aranygaluska containing walnuts and cinnamon.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/8421/coffee-cake
  2. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/apr/16/how-to-make-perfect-coffee-and-walnut-cake
  3. ↑ Brennan, G. (2015). Brunch: Recipes for Cozy Weekend Mornings. Weldon Owen. p. PT 83. ISBN 978-1-61628-987-4.
  4. ↑ Fields, D. (2000). Debbi Fields' Great American Desserts: 100 Mouthwatering Easytoprepare Recipes. Simon & Schuster. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-7432-0205-3.
  5. ↑ "American Cakes - Sour Cream Coffeecake History & Recipe". Tori Avey. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
  6. ↑ Clarkson, Potter; Martha Stewart's Cakes' (September 24, 2013). "Recipe: Applesauce Coffee Cake". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  7. ↑ Brownetone, Cecily (October 10, 1969). "Cooking Is Fun". Spokane Daily Chronicle. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  8. ↑ Encyclopedia of Jewish Food - Gil Marks

Further reading

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