This is a delicious, easy coffeecake recipe from the Amish Cook archives, appearing in the column back in 2001 when Elizabeth Coblentz still penned it. Â Note the use of lard in the recipe. You can substitute it with butter or shortening, but Elizabeth was very "old school" and often used lard. Â A new generation of Amish cooks seem to be use it less. Â Anyway, try - and enjoy - this recipe! Â I've added a photo to this post...this comes to us from Magdalena Perks who runs the Plain Anglican blog, her blog is a great place to explore simplicity from not an Amish angle but an Anglican one. Â Magdalena made the coffeecake and said it turned out great, so glad it worked out. Â The photo looks delicious!
German Coffeecake
Ingredients
- ¾ cup warm water (about 105 degrees F)
- 1 package dry yeast
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2¼ cups all-purpose flour, divided for use
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup lard (or shortening)
- About 2 teaspoons margarine
- Brown sugar and cinnamon for topping
Instructions
- Dissolve yeast in warm water. Let stand a few minutes, then
- stir. Stir in sugar, salt and 1 cup of the flour.
- Beat the egg, add lard (softened or melted and cooled) and the
- egg to the flour mixture. Beat in the remaining flour until mixture
- is smooth. Drop by spoonfuls into a greased shallow baking pan. Let
- rise in a warm place until dough is nearly doubled. Dot top of dough
- with tiny slivers of margarine, then sprinkle with brown sugar and
- cinnamon. Bake 30 minutes at 375 degrees. Delicious!
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Deanna Schroeder
Thats my German grandma's coffee cake. Yum!
Diane
why is it called a German coffee cake when it has no coffee in it?
Kevin
Hi, Diane, I think a lot of coffeecakes are called coffeecakes just because they go well with a cup of coffee not because they have coffee in them, although a few recipes do.
Marge
Sounds nice and easy, will definitely try it
Magdalena
Thanks for the mention, Kevin. I baked this in my Amish-made "Baker's Choice" woodstove by Suppertime Stoves, made out in Aylmer, Ontario.
Marie Czarnecki
Looks great, and I am going to make it. Recipe looks easy, and "GERMAN" WOW. Just like Polish my grandmother always baked "GERMAN/POLISH FOODS.