Glazed Apple Lattice Coffee Cake
A decadent yeasted coffee cake featuring tender spiced apples in a beautiful lattice pattern, finished with an orange glaze. This elegant cake combines warming spices like cardamom, nutmeg, and cinnamon with fresh citrus notes.
Ingredients
- •2 tablespoons warm water (105°F to 115°F)
- •1 package active dry yeast
- •½ cup whole milk
- •6 tablespoons sugar
- •5 tablespoons unsalted butter
- •1 teaspoon salt
- •2 large egg yolks
- •1 teaspoon orange peel
- •½ teaspoon ground cardamom
- •¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- •2¼ cups all purpose flour
- •2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- •6 tablespoons brown sugar
- •1¼ pounds Golden Delicious apples
- •1 teaspoon orange peel
- •1 teaspoon lemon peel
- •½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- •⅛ teaspoon ground cardamom
- •⅛ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- •1 spray nonstick vegetable oil spray
- •⅓ cup vanilla wafer cookies
- •1½ cups powdered sugar
- •2 tablespoons orange juice
Cooking Instructions
- 1.
Place 2 tablespoons warm water in small cup. Mix in yeast. Let stand until yeast dissolves, about 6 minutes.
6 min
- 2.
Stir milk, sugar, butter, and salt in medium saucepan over medium-low heat just until sugar dissolves and butter melts (mixture should be just warm). Scrape milk mixture into large bowl; cool to lukewarm if necessary. Whisk in yeast mixture, egg yolks, orange peel, and spices. Add 2 cups flour; mix with rubber spatula until dough comes together. Turn dough out onto floured work surface. Knead until smooth and silky, sprinkling with more flour by tablespoonfuls as needed, about 6 minutes. Place in clean large bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and kitchen towel. Place in warm draft-free area; let rise until light and almost doubled in volume, about 2 1/2 hours.
150 min
- 3.
Melt butter in heavy medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add brown sugar. Cook until thick grainy sauce forms, about 1 minute. Mix in apples. Cook until apples are tender and sauce is reduced to glaze, tossing often, about 7 minutes. Mix in all grated peel and spices. Cool filling at least 30 minutes and up to 3 hours.
38 min
- 4.
Place large sheet of foil on work surface; spray with nonstick spray. Turn dough out onto foil. Roll out to 14x12-inch rectangle. Sprinkle cookie crumbs in 4-inch-wide strip down center, leaving 1/2-inch border at top and bottom. Arrange apples with any juices atop crumbs. Starting 1/2 inch from each long side of apples, cut straight to edge of dough at 1-inch intervals, making about 13 strips on each side. Fold dough strips alternately and on slight angle over filling, forming lattice. Seal open ends of dough.
15 min
- 5.
Slide foil with dough onto large rimmed baking sheet; trim foil overhang. Cover cake loosely with plastic and towel. Place cake in warm draft-free area; let dough rise until light and puffy, about 1 3/4 hours.
105 min
- 6.
Preheat oven to 375°F. Bake cake uncovered until golden brown, 30 to 35 minutes. Gently run spatula under cake to loosen from foil. Cool 30 minutes.
65 min
- 7.
Mix powdered sugar and 2 tablespoons orange juice in small bowl to blend, adding more juice by 1/2 teaspoonfuls if too thick. Drizzle glaze over cake. Cut crosswise into slices. Serve slightly warm or at room temperature.
10 min