Cream cheese coffee cake is a rich and dense cake made with cream cheese as the main ingredient for flavoring. It can be made with a pound cake or yeast-based bread and is often served with vanilla or caramel icing and coffee or ice cream. The cream cheese filling is blended with sugar and vanilla extract and swirled into the cake batter for a marbled effect. It can be topped with vanilla or fruit and nut flavored icing or a caramel glaze with chopped pecans and apple slices.
Cream cheese coffee cake is a baked cake in which cream cheese has been used as the main ingredient for the flavoring. Cream cheese is usually blended together with other sweet flavors, such as vanilla and sugar, and used as a filling. This dessert can be covered in vanilla or caramel icing and is often served with dark coffee, amaro or vanilla ice cream.
A popular method used when making cream cheese coffee cake involves using this ingredient as a type of swirled filling. The cake used in this type of recipe is typically a type of pound cake. The batter is somewhat dense and heavy, and when baked, it makes for a dense, rich, buttery flavored cake. This batter can be mixed with sour cream or milk to increase its moisture and make it lighter when combined with cream cheese.
The cream cheese filling is often a combination of softened cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla extract, similar to the ingredients used in cheesecake. These ingredients are blended together until well blended and combined with the main layered cake dough. This type of cream cheese coffee cake tends to work best when baked in a circular pan. Half of the heavy batter, similar to a pound cake, should be poured into the pantsuit first, followed by all of the cream cheese batter filling. The cake must then be topped with the remaining batter. A flat-bladed knife or long toothpick can be used to lightly dip and swirl the ingredients together for a marbled effect.
This type of cake should take longer to bake than traditional pounds or coffee cakes. Half an hour to an hour may be needed in a hot oven so that all the ingredients can be properly combined. A toothpick inserted near the center of the cake should come out slightly clean, with only the cream cheese filling residue remaining when the dessert has completed cooking.
Another popular form of cream cheese coffee cake involves using yeast-based bread to create a type of Danish. The yeast bread is mixed in the traditional way, incorporating additional portions of sugar and butter for flavor. The dough can be divided into equal parts and rolled into long rectangles. Each rectangle is then topped with a cream cheese filling mixed with sugar, egg, and vanilla extract. The dough is then rolled and cut crosswise so that the filling can rise slightly through the tops of the bread.
A traditional vanilla frosting can be used to top the cream cheese coffee cake or can be substituted for a fruit and nut flavored alternative. Vanilla icing can be mixed with sugar, vanilla extract, and milk to create a soft, light texture. This should be sprinkled over the pound cake or danish immediately so the icing can harden slightly around the dessert. A caramel-flavored glaze can be substituted by allowing the sugar to first caramelize for several minutes in the butter on a hot stovetop before adding the additional ingredients. Chopped pecans and fresh apple slices go well with this variation.
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