Coffee Cake a Tasty Treat for Breakfast or
Brunch
The term coffee cake is derived from the
fact that it usually served with coffee or a tasty treat with
breakfast and brunch. Although it does not generally
contain coffee as an ingredient, some recipes do add coffee to
the glazes. Coffee cake by definition is a wide
variety of light sweet yeast cakes that contain nuts, fruits,
and spices. The cakes are usually topped with a glaze or a
cinnamon strudel (a mixture of butter, sugar, and
cinnamon).
Gourmet coffee cakes can be found almost
anywhere from your local bakery to pastry shops online.
CoffeeCakes.com offers useful information regarding the history
of coffee, coffee cakes and much more. Their gourmet coffee
cakes range from Bristo type cakes, to Grandma’s traditional
sour cream cakes. You can also find foreign cakes like Stollen
from Germany, and Stroopwafels from Holland.
Here in America, Southern Louisiana to be
precise is the home of a very famous coffee cake, known as King
Cake. French in origin, King Cake is available in South
Louisiana only after January 6th, of each year, through Mardi
Gras Day. There is however a company, Haydels, that you can
order the cake from year around. The cakes are oval-shaped and
are made from a basic coffee cake like dough that is decorated
with colored granulated sugar, usually the carnival colors, and
sometimes filled with traditional coffee cake fillings, like
fruits and nuts. They are served with chicory coffee and eaten
warm.
You can find them if varying sizes and
shapes, tastes and flavors. You might even find that you have a
special coffee cake recipe hiding somewhere in your
grandmother’s old cookbooks. So brush the dust off and give it
a try. They are easy to make and the ingredients are not hard
to find.
Coffee cakes make a tasty treat for that
special breakfast and brunch you may be planning. From sour
cream to blueberry filled, coffee cakes are very versatile.
They are a treat you can serve year round; with a little
imagination you might create your own traditional coffee
cake.
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