{"id":4572,"date":"2011-03-27T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2011-03-25T08:27:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T14:27:35","slug":"daring-bakers-meringue-coffee-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/27\/daring-bakers-meringue-coffee-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Daring Bakers: Meringue Coffee Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally. \u00a0I have missed more than one of the Daring Bakers challenges in the last few months. \u00a0I am glad that I got back on track with this one!<\/p>\n

The March 2011 Daring Baker\u2019s Challenge was hosted by Ria of Ria\u2019s Collection and Jamie of Life\u2019s a Feast. Ria and Jamie challenged The Daring Bakers to bake a yeasted Meringue Coffee Cake.<\/p>\n

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I managed to get the coffee cake made this week despite the fact that my son has not been a fan of napping for more than 30 minutes at a time. \u00a0At the moment I am trying to get this post written before he wakes up! \u00a0So, forgive me if this one is short and sweet.<\/p>\n

The dough wasn’t too difficult to put together, but even after an hour and a half rise it hadn’t really doubled in bulk. \u00a0I do not have a great relationship with yeast. \u00a0I added 1\/2 teaspoon of cinnamon and 3\/4 teaspoon of cardamom to the flour mixture.<\/p>\n

The filling. \u00a0Oh my goodness. \u00a0The filling. \u00a0How can you argue with this? \u00a0Sweet meringue, chopped pecans, cinnamon sugar and chocolate chips. \u00a0I did one ring with chocolate, and one without. \u00a0I prefer the one without if I’m enjoying this for breakfast. \u00a0I found that the chocolate hides the other flavors too much.<\/p>\n

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Rolling this up was easy, but when I went to form the ring I couldn’t get the edges to completely seal together. \u00a0I also didn’t have much filling on the edges, so a section of my ring was just bread…which still tasted delicious.<\/p>\n

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After baking, the meringue puffed out of the vents and got nice and brown. \u00a0It is so lovely! \u00a0I couldn’t resist breaking off a piece of it to enjoy. \u00a0Yummy.<\/p>\n

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I made the coffee cakes the day before and sent half of each one to work with Ben the next morning. \u00a0I was worried that it wouldn’t stay fresh overnight, but I had a piece the next afternoon and it was quite good.<\/p>\n

Here is the link to the recipe<\/a>. \u00a0I am too pressed for time to put the recipe on this post! \u00a0Ok, now off to get the kitchen cleaned before the little man wakes! \u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n