Moravian Sugar Cake
An easy recipe for Moravian Sugar Cake. Makes two 8-inch pans.
Servings 32
Cost 5
Ingredients
- ½ cup luke warm milk, divided use (114 grams)
- 4 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast
- 5 tablespoons granulated sugar, divided use (60 grams)
- 3 cups all-purpose flour (380 grams)
- ½ cup mashed potatoes
- 2 large eggs at room temperature (100 grams)
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled (84 grams)
- ½ teaspoon salt
Topping
- ½ cup brown sugar (60 grams)
- 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
- 4 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled (salted or unsalted) (56 grams)
Instructions
- Combine ¼ cup of the warm milk, the yeast and 1 tablespoon of the sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer. Let stand for about 10 minutes or until yeast is foamy.
- When yeast is foamy, add the remaining 4 tablespoons of sugar, 1 ½ cups (half) of the flour, mashed potatoes, eggs, butter and salt and mix well by hand until you have a loose and sticky and loose mixture.
- Add the remaining flour and continue mixing. Put the bowl on the stand mixer stand and mix with the dough hook for about 2 minutes until smooth and just slightly sticky. It should cling to the hook and the bottom of the bowl.
- Put the dough in a bowl greased generously with butter, then cover and let rise for 1 hour or until doubled in bulk. Keep an eye on it, because with all that yeast it's possible it will double in less than an hour. Ours doubled in 40 minutes.
- Grease two 8 inch square pans very well with butter. Since this is sticky, you might want to line with some parchment as well.
- Punch down the risen dough and divide it between the two pans (about 14.5 oz dough in each pan. Cover with greased plastic wrap and let rise again for 30 minutes.
- Pat the risen dough to the edges of the pans. Using the handle of a wooden spoon or your favorite poking implement, poke holes (dimples) all over the top of the dough being careful not to go all the way to the bottom.
- Mix together the brown sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle evenly over the dough. Drizzle evenly with the ¼ cup of melted butter. Let rise for another 20 minutes while you preheat the oven.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Set the two square pans on a large rimmed pan and bake for about 20 minutes or until the internal temperature of the bread is around 195 degrees F.
- Serve warm or let cool and serve later. You can also freeze it.
Notes
This recipe halves very easily. Half a yeast packet is about 1 ¼ teaspoons. If you only need 8 to 10 rolls, just measure out your yeast and save it for another time!