That coffee cake looks great. Willing to share the recipe?
I just made a 4 pack today. Saturday immediate family will come by the house for dinner. I made these as take home cakes.
Here are the pix of mini play by play.
Here is recipe by Martha Stewart. If you follow it, you will achieve pretty much the same result. My mom's recipe is handwritten on paper. I will note differences below.
Mom's recipe differences.
1 1/2 cups warm milk @110°F, Fresh yeast cake, or Active dry yeast. (did not need to be Rapid Rise)
Tablespoon sugar, and heaping tablespoon of flour. Mix, and let yeast proof.
Into stand mixer bowl, with dough hook, I added the following in this order.
Melt 1 1/2 sticks butter. Pour liquid into bowl.
One cup of flour into liquid butter. Mix some. Check temperature so not too hot to cook eggs.
Add 6 eggs (whole)
Add 1 1/2 cups sugar.
Zest from one orange.
Mix some.
Add milk with yeast. It should be active foamy at this point.
Mix well so all is combined well. Add raisins at this time.
Start to add flour one cup at a time. When it starts to get sticky and stiff, spoon in smaller quantities. I think I was able to add a total of about 5 additional cups. (one cup was initially added to liquid butter)
Your quantity of flour needed
can vary somewhat depending on size of eggs used and other small factors.
When all is well mixed and consistency is of sticky somewhat stiff dough, cover with kitchen towel, and rise until doubled. I did it in my oven
proof heated to about 100°F, and then I left the light on.
First picture shows after about 1 1/2 hours.
I mixed it with a wooden spoon, and it punched down to half the size.
Placed into 4 pans and added the Sugar Crumbs on top.
Let rise a little until dough gets slightly rounded. Preheat oven, and bake until lightly browned.
I baked an additional 8 minutes to get the blond tops to be slightly browned tops. I kept an eye on it all along the additional time.
Note on the crumbs; I used 1 stick butter, I cup sugar, and just a little over one cup of flour. Marthas' recipe says 2 cups of flour. Not sure if that is a mistake, or sabotage.
TOOOO Much flour, by one cup.
Use your hand to make the crumbs.
I still have some crumbs leftover, since the 1 stick butter quantity made more than needed. Will refrigerate, and use on my next cake, (an egg twist) next baking.
I hope I did not overlook anything in my explanation.
me,, and are providing me nutrition
I needed to keep myself busy during the lock-downs, so I have been baking some. Scale allows me to make better/more accurate measurements.
It even surprised me.
I guess they are fine! I use the deep litter method and haven't used any heat yet. Everytime I check on them they aren't huddled together or even have their feathers fluffed out
I was expecting to need to bring them into our garage Monday. Anyone else still not using heat?
