Candy Cane Coffee Cake

16 ingredients
1 steps

Ingredients

  • For Sour Cream Yeast Dough
  • 2 cups sour cream
  • 4 teaspoons active dry yeast (the equivalent of 2 packages)
  • 1/2 cup warm water (105 to 115 degrees F)
  • 1/4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine, softened
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 6 cups all-purpose flour, about
  • For the cake
  • 1 1/2 cups finely chopped dried apricots
  • 1 1/2 cups finely chopped maraschino cherries
  • soft butter or margarine
  • Thin Icing
  • 2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
  • 2 tablespoons water

Directions

  1. 1
    ["Heat sour cream over low heat just until lukewarm.", "Dissolve yeast in the warm water. Stir in sour cream, butter, sugar, salt, eggs and 2 cups of the flour. Beat until smooth. Mix in enough remaining flour to make it easy to handle.", "Turn dough onto well-floured board. Knead until smooth, about 10 minutes. Place in greased bowl. Turn once to bring greased side up. Cover. Let rise in warm place until double, about 1 hour. To test for rising, stick two fingers in dough. If holes remain but top stays smooth, dough is ready.", "Heat oven to 375\u00b0F Punch down dough: Divide into three equal parts.", "Roll each part into a rectangle, 15 x 6 inches. Place on greased baking sheet. With scissors, make 2-inch cuts at 1/2-inch intervals on both long sides of the rectangles.", "Combine apricots and cherries. Spread 1/3 of the fruit mixture down the center of each of the rectangles. Crisscross strips over the filling. Stretch dough to 22 inches. Curve to form a \"cane.\"".""

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