Scandinavian almond ring (basic sweet dough)

6 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 large Egg
1¾ cup Ground blanched or un blanched almonds (7 ounces)
¼ cup Lightly salted butter or margarine, at room
Temperature
⅓ cup Granulated sugar
½ teaspoon Almond extract
1 tablespoon Sweet sherry wine or vanilla extract
½ teaspoon Ground cardamom seed
½ Recipe Basic Sweet Dough
2 teaspoons Milk, mixed with 1 teaspoon granulated sugar

Directions

Beat the egg in a medium-sized bowl Add the almonds, butter, sugar, almond extract, sherry, and cardamom. Mix well. Cover and let stand for 5 minutes.

Roll out the Basic Sweet Dough to a rectangle 12 x 18 inches. Spread the almond filling evenly over the dough, leaving 2 inches along one long side. Starting from the other long side, roll up the dough like a jelly roll. Place, seam down, on a lightly greased baking sheet, twist into a circle and pinch the ends to join. Using scissors, make cuts about three-fourths of the way through the dough at about 1-inch intervals. Cover and let rise for 20 minutes in a warm place.

Heat the oven to 350F. Bake the coffee cake for 25 to 30 minutes until golden brown. Remove from the oven and brush with the milk-sugar mixture. Cool on a wire rack.

Makes one coffeecake.

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Posted by Fred Peters.

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