THB : Danish Chocolate Streusel-Swirled Coffee Cake

It's our 10th bake at The Home Bakers (THB) and Anuja from Simple Baking, our host for this bake, has selected Danish Chocolate Streusel-Swirled Coffee Cake, a great pick! Anuja has a wonderful site with lots of delicious bakes! If you have not had the pleasure of knowing Anuja, do stop by Simple Baking to say hi and make a new friend, you will be glad you did!

Danish Chocolate Streusel-Swirled Coffee Cake is one amazing bread, so soft and delicious! After my confusion with cake and bread in my previous bake for Bake-Along, here, once again, I'm calling this a bread instead of cake! 

I made half a recipe and use my stand mixer to mix the ingredients to a soft dough. Remove the dough, place on a working surface and knead until smooth for about 10 minutes, a process which I rather enjoyed doing, as the dough was a pleasure to work with, soft but not sticky. The only changes I made was,  I use bread flour instead of all-purpose flour. 

Place in a greased bowl, turn to coat and cover loosely with greased plastic wrap. Leave to rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1-1/2 hours.

Punch down risen dough and turned out on a lightly floured surface, knead lightly until smooth.

Roll out dough to about 10-by-14-inch rectangle. Spread evenly with the prepared streusel, which are made up of sugar, flour, butter, cocoa powder and cinnamon. Roll up, swiss roll style, seam side down.

I placed two rectangular plastic dough scraper, one on either side, under the dough for easy transfer to the baking tray.

Use a scissors to snip the loaf at 3/4-inch intervals, cutting three-fourths of the way through the dough. 

Starting at one end, pull and twist each cut slice on its side to lie flat on alternate sides, which I barely managed, as there is not much space on my baking tray! It's a big loaf! (Note to self: make smaller or individual rolls next time!)

Cover with a towel and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 45 minutes.

Brush with egg whites, sprinkle with flaked almonds and bake until golden brown. The oven is preheated at 350F and reduce to 325F when the dough goes into the oven.

These are so good, especially when eaten warm. I made only half a recipe and it is quite a big loaf! The texture of the bread is really moist and soft. The streusel filling is so yummy and I like the flaked almonds over the top too, a nice crunch with nutty almond fragrance. Overall review : Delicious! This is definitely a keeper!

It stays soft too on the next day, but then I reheated it for a short while as I like to eat it warm, just to enjoy the full softness of the bread and the wonderful smell of the almonds.

Please stop by Anuja from Simple Baking for the full recipe. And to see the rest of the members' bake,  do drop by The Home Bakers (THB).

THB is currently baking from Coffee Cakes by Lou Seibert Pappas, if you would like to join in and be a member of THB, please email me at kitchenflavours@yahoo.com

Everyone's welcome!!