St James Coffee Cake Food

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.

GLAZED STRAWBERRY JAM-FILLED COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Put the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt in a small bowl and stir to combine. Add the butter and mix thoroughly with your fingers or a fork until all of the butter has been evenly distributed and incorporated into the flour. Form into small to medium clumps with your fingers.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter an 8-inch square cake pan.
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a small bowl.
• Beat together the butter and granulated sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla. Reduce the speed to low and add the flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the sour cream, beginning and ending with the flour, beating until just incorporated.
• Spoon half of the cake batter (it will be very thick) into the prepared pan and smooth with an offset spatula. Dollop the strawberry jam on top and carefully smooth with the spatula. Spoon the remaining cake batter on top and smooth the top. Sprinkle on the crumb topping.
• Bake until the cake and topping are golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let cool in the pan 20 minutes, then invert onto a plate; invert back onto a rack to cool completely.
• When the cake is cool, whisk together the confectioners' sugar and milk in a medium bowl until smooth. Drizzle the glaze over the cake and let set.

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!