Austrian Coffee Cake Abm Food

AUSTRIAN COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 190 deg C (375 deg F).
• Cream butter and sugar until light, beat in eggs gradually and fold in flour and salt with metal spoon, turn into greased ring mould cake tin (bundt) and bake 25 minutes.
• Cool cake and after it is cool return to mould ready for pouring in coffee - sweeten coffee and flavour with rum and slowly pour over cake whilst in tin.
• Turn onto plate and cover with whipped cream flavoured with vanilla and decorate with toasted slivered almonds.

AUSTRIAN COFFEE CREAM CAKE (MOKKATORTE)

Steps:

• Directions for Cake:.
• Separate the egg yolks and whites.
• Beat the egg yolks and sugar together until creamy.
• Add the ground almonds and the tablespoon of coffee.
• Beat the whites to a stiff froth. Fold this in alternately with the flour, until the whole is stiff but quite light.
• Grease 2 cake-tins and dust with flour.
• Bake in a moderate oven (350) for about 30 minutes.
• Fill AND cover with Mocha cream.
• Directions for Mocha Cream:.
• Beat the egg yolks with the sugar.
• Add the coffee and stir well.
• Put in a double boiler and cook until the mixture is like a creamy custard.
• Allow to cool.
• Beat the butter to a cream. Mix this in with the custard.
• Spread the cream on top of the lower half of the Torte. Place the other half on top. Cover the top and sides with the remainder.
• If you can get little imitation coffee beans in chocolate or sweets, they make a nice decoration. Otherwise, use real coffee beans.

OLD WORLD YUGOSLAVIAN COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• 1 Make the filling. Mix all ingredients together except egg set aside.
• 2 Place the yeast in a large bowl with the 1/4 cup of warm water. Wait for yeast to activate. You will see bubbles,and foamy looking top on it. If it doesn't appear to activate. Add a teaspoon of sugar to test. It may activate after adding sugar.Make sure water is not to hot or to cool. Warm not lukewarm,or hot!
• 3 Stir in the milk,butter,sugar,eggs,salt,and 3 cups of the flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough of the remaining flour to make the dough easy to handle.
• 4 Put dough on lightly floured surface and start kneading. Knead until smooth and elastic. Place in a greased bowl turning to greased side up. Let rise until double in size in a warm place. Hint: winter can be tough. You can place the bowl of dough over a bowl of hot water covered with a rack to support the bread bowl. Cover the bowls with a towel to trap warmth from the water like a tent. This helps it rise better in the Winter months. 1-1/2-2 hours.
• 5 Remove dough from bowl after it has risen double in size. Punch the dough down with fist. Divide the dough in half. Lightly flour surface. Roll each half of dough in to a rectangle 12 x 15 inches long.
• 6 When ready to use filling add the beaten egg to filling. Divide filling and spread over the 2 rectangles. Roll dough tightly by the long side of rectangle that is 15 inches.Pinch dough to seal where the dough ends. Repeat with other rectangle. Stretch the roll to even it out.
• 7 Place each Roll on a lightly greased sheet pan. Coil the dough in a circle until the coil ends. Cover and let rise until double in size. About an hour. Heat oven to 350 degree's about 40 minutes or until browned. Brush cake with butter,and glaze.