Lucias Breakfast Cake Recipes

CRUNCHY BREAKFAST CAKE

Steps:

• Mix the dry topping ingredients together.
• Then chop the butter into little pieces and mash into mixture with a fork or your hands until crumbly.
• Mix the dry cake ingredients together.
• In a seperate bowl beat the eggs and sour cream.
• Add the egg mixture to the dry ingredients and mix.
• Pour evenly into a greased 9x9 inch pan and sprinkle the topping evenly over the cake batter.
• Bake at 350F for 35-40 minutes or until toothpick test comes out clean.

LUCIA'S BREAKFAST CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter bottom of 9-inch-diameter springform pan. Blend flour, sugar and salt in processor 5 seconds. Add butter and process, using on/off turns, until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add yolks and vanilla and blend until dough holds together. Press dough onto bottom of prepared pan. Use tines of fork to decorate edge. Brush with glaze. Bake cake until golden and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.

LUCIA'S WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven at 350°F.
• Line an 8 inch spring form pan with parchment paper.
• Put 3 egg whites and 1/3 cup of sugar in a pot and stir on low heat with a wooden spoon until the preparation looks like white-slush melted marshmallows.
• Beat the 3 other egg whites firm with a pinch of salt.
• Combine the cooked egg whites with the nuts and fold the firm white eggs inches.
• Divide between the molds and sprinkle with 2 Tbsp sugar.
• Cook for 55 to 60 min for a large cake, 35 min for the small ones (check that they are cooked by inserting the blade of a knife in; it should come out dry).
• Take out and let cool.

SWEDISH ST. LUCIA BUNS

Steps:

• Heat milk in a small saucepan over medium heat just until bubbles form around the edge of the pan, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat. Add sugar, butter, salt, and saffron, stirring until butter is melted. Let cool to lukewarm temperature, about 2 minutes.
• Sprinkle yeast over warm water in large bowl, stirring until dissolved. Stir in milk mixture and 3 1/2 cups flour until smooth, about 2 minutes. Stir in eggs. Add remaining flour gradually, mixing in the last by hand until dough leaves the sides of the bowl and is very soft.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Cover with a bowl and let rest for 10 minutes.
• Knead dough with additional flour as needed, about 5 minutes. Place dough in a lightly greased large bowl; flip dough to grease both sides. Cover with a towel and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, 60 to 90 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
• Punch down dough. Take golf ball-sized bits of dough and roll out into snakes. Roll each end in opposite directions to create 'S' forms. Place buns on the prepared baking sheets.
• Combine egg yolk and water in a bowl with a whisk. Brush over buns.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 6 minutes. Remove from the oven, leaving oven on. Quickly place 1 raisin in the center of each 'S' curve.
• Return to the oven and continue to bake until golden and cooked through, about 6 minutes more. Let cool on a wire rack before serving.