Tips on Baking Gourmet Coffee Cake

Video Transcript

"Alright. We have been baking for about 54 minutes and we are going to check it. The way in which we do that is to take a toothpick and set it into the center. Let's see if it comes out completely clean and it is -- it's coming out with little moist crumbs. This thing is perfect. Let's take this out of the oven; turn our oven off and notice, it didn't rise all the way to the top. It's not supposed to rise to the top, but it did raise quite a bit. It is a denser, coffee cake. It's where the name comes from. It's the kind of cake you want to eat with coffee. It's got some substance, some texture to it, along with some great flavor. We are not quite done with this; we are going to let this cool for about 5 minutes or so, because I want this to still be warm when I remove the bottom. I need to drizzle this and make some icing for it. Our next step is going to be to make the icing. I'm going to talk about how easy that is to prepare that icing. Flavor the icing as you like. It can be plain sugar icing or one that you can add extract of almond, orange juice, fresh lemon on your icing to create all different flavors on the top. Right now, this needs to go. Take this over here and sit it on our rack. Smells so good. See how the streusel has made this wonderful topping. It?s all sort of brown, luscious looking. Sugar is melted and the nuts are toasted. Cinnamon is coming out. Just excellent. Ok, let it cool for a few minutes."