Small Coffee Cakes (Kleina Kaffee Kuchen)
breads, cakes
1/2 cup butter and other shortening,
2 egg yolk
1/2 cup cream
1 cup yeast
1 cup milk, lukewarm
2 egg
3 tablespoon sugar
2 cup flour, sifted
1 *dissolved in:
1/2 teaspoon salt
Cream the butter, sugar and salt and add the eggs and egg yolks one at a time, beating well after each addition. To the dissolved yeast, add 3 Tbsp of the flour and mix well. Combine with the first mixture. Add the remaining flour and cream alternately. Grease and flour muffin tins and fill 2/3 full of the dough. Set pans in a warm place until dough has risen to the tops of the pans. Bake at 400-F about 25 minutes. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936.
Yield: 1 servings