"Not quite cake (though it's a close cousin to coffee cake), and not quite bread (though it looks like a sugar-laden focaccia), Moravian sugar cake is perhaps most similar in spirit to cinnamon rolls. This is my recipe for Moravian sugar cake. It is as if a coffee cake and a cinnamon roll had a baby, and then it turned into sweet focaccia."
"The secret ingredient in this recipe is actually a mashed potato, which keeps everything super tender, soft, pillowy, plush. And then you pour over this mixture of brown sugar and cinnamon, and then melted butter. That butter kind of seeps into those pockets and creates these little jammy bursts of spiced brown sugar as you bite into it."
Moravian sugar cake sits between cake and bread, blending coffee cake, cinnamon-roll flavors, and a sweet focaccia-like appearance. The dough includes mashed potato to deliver a super tender, soft, pillowy crumb. A mixture of brown sugar and cinnamon is poured over the shaped dough, then drenched with melted butter. The butter melts into crevices and caramelizes the sugar mixture, forming concentrated, jammy bursts of spiced brown sugar throughout. The finished bake yields plush slices with pockets of sticky, spiced sweetness set against a pillowy, enriched bread base.
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