Free Recipe Moravian Sugar Cake

Recipe Type: Free Recipes

Recipe Preparation: bake

Cooking Ingredients for Moravian Sugar Cake Recipe

1/2 c Warm water; (110 deg F)
1/2 ts Sugar
2 pk Active dry yeast
3/4 c Warm water; (110 deg F)
1/2 c Sugar
2 tb Dry milk
1/4 c Instant mashed potatoes;
-(dry)
1/2 ts Salt
1/2 c Melted and cooled butter
2 Eggs
3 c Flour
1 c Brown sugar (I prefer light;
-but dark will do. DH)
1 ts Cinammon
1/2 c Melted and cooled butter

Moravian Sugar Cake Preparation

I grew up in Winston-Salem, NC, originally settled by Moravians in the mid-1700s. As a kid, I thought everyone enjoyed all those Moravian goodies like ginger cookies and sugar cake, especially popular around the Holidays. It wasn”t till I was in my late teens that I learned what treasures I had been blithely eating all my life. Here”s a recipe for Winkler”s Moravian sugar cake. (Winkler”s is the name of the bakery in Old Salem, the reconstructed Moravian settlement near downtown Winston-Salem.) The recipe comes from _Cooking in Old Salem_. Obviously, this is an updated version of the recipe (the original Moravians didn”t have *instant* mashed potatoes), but it is still tasty. I find this needs to be eaten fairly fresh, but you can seal it in an airtight bag or container to extend its life for a while. It freezes wonderfully. It”s delicious with coffee. All in all, it takes about 3 hours to make; most of that time is letting the dough rise. It”s so easy, it would be an ideal Holiday project for the young Alice Waters or Paul Bocuse in the family :-) Add yeast to warm water and sugar. Set aside until yeast bubbles. Add next seven ingredients plus one cup of the flour. Beat 2 minutes on medium speed. With a wooden spoon add the two remaining cups of flour. Place the dough in a greased bowl, turn once to grease the top of the dough. Cover and let rise until double – about one hour. Punch dough down and put in greased shallow pan about 17 x 12 x 1 . Let rise 30 minutes. Spread evenly in pan and sprinkle evenly with brown sugar and cinammon. Make shallow indentations in the dough with your fingers and dribble with last 1/2 cup of melted and cooled butter. Let rise 30 minutes and bake until golden brown – about 12 to 15 minutes at 375 deg F. Posted to FOODWINE Digest by David Hall <sasdmh@UNX.SAS.COM> on Dec 12, 1997

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Recipe Serves: 1

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