Sunrise Surprise Coffee Cake Recipes

SUNRISE COFFEECAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F. Coat an 8-inch round baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• Unroll crescent roll dough and separate into triangles. Spread with marmalade and roll up each triangle, starting at shortest side.
• Arrange rolled triangles, point-side-down, in a spoke fashion in prepared baking pan.
• Bake for 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Immediately invert onto rack and place right-side-up on serving plate.
• Mix together confectioners' sugar, milk and orange extract (or vanilla) until smooth; drizzle over warm coffeecake. Serve warm.

SOUR CREAM COFFEE CAKE "SURPRISE"

Steps:

• TO MAKE NUT MEAL CRUST: Toast nuts in a skillet until they smell toasted, about 8 minutes. Pulse in a food processor until finely ground. Note: a coffee grinder may work also (have not tried it).
• Spritz a 10-inch Bundt pan with cooking spray. Sprinkle with nut meal; turn the pan to coat evenly. Set aside. NOTE: If nut meal does not adhere well to the sides of your Bundt pan or you have a Teflon pan, use butter flavored Crisco to grease sides of the pan.
• TO MAKE CAKE: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
• In a large mixer bowl, on medium speed, beat butter and 1 cup sugar until light, about 3 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at a time, and then vanilla. Mix in sour cream. Stir dry ingredients into the batter until just combined.
• Spoon 1/2 of batter into prepared pan.
• In a small bowl, mix 1/3 cup sugar, cinnamon, and instant coffee powder. Sprinkle 1/2 of this mixture over the batter and top with 2/3 cup chocolate chips. Spread remaining batter on top. Sprinkle with the remaining cinnamon-sugar mixture and then the remaining chocolate chips. Gently push into batter.
• Bake 40-45 minutes or until the tester inserted in middle comes out clean. Let cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Invert on a wire rack to complete cooling.
• SERVING NOTE: Delish in the morning (or anytime) with a cup of coffee or your favorite hot beverage!

SUNRISE SURPRISE COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Mix all dry ingredients (except nuts) together in a ziplock bag. Label bag.
• Mix all wet ingredients together and seal in a watertight container. Keep in cooler until ready to use. Label container.
• At campsite: Line sides and bottom of a dutch oven with greased heavy-duty aluminum foil. **I like to purchase the pre-formed dutch oven liners at the camping supply store**.
• Preheat oven using 8 coals underneath and 17 briquettes on the lid.
• In a medium-size bowl, mix bag of dry ingredients with container of wet ingredients.
• Remove oven from heat and pour coffee cake batter into the oven, spreading evenly over the foil on bottom.
• Sprinkle the nuts over top of batter.
• Return oven to the original set of coals and bake for 30 minutes.