Coconut Praline Coffee Cake
Source: The Creole Cookbook - Oxmoor House 1976
2/3 cup evaporated milk
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
3/4 cup soft butter
Sifted all-purpose flour
2 packages dry yeast
1/2 cup warm water
2/3 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
2/3 cup flaked coconut
Praline Frosting
Place the evaporated milk, sugar, salt and eggs in large bowl of electric mixer and beat until mixed. Add 1/2 cup butter and 2 cups flour and beat with mixer until smooth.
Dissolve the yeast in warm water. Add with 1 cup flour to the milk mixture and beat at medium speed for 3 minutes. Stir in 2 cups flour and cover. Let rise for about 1 hour and 30 minutes or until doubled in bulk.
Punch down. Turn out onto a well-floured pastry cloth or board and knead lightly. Roll out into a 10 x 15-inch rectangle.
Mix remaining butter, brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour and coconut and spread on the dough. Roll from long side as for a jellyroll and place, seam side down, in a greased 10-inch tube pan. Press ends together to seal, then cover. Let rise for about 1 hours or until doubled in bulk.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes and remove from pan. Frost with Praline Frosting while warm. Decorate with pecan halves, if desired.
Praline Frosting
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons evaporated milk
2 tablespoons melted butter
1 cup unsifted confectioners' sugar
Combine the brown sugar, evaporated milk and butter in a bowl. Add the confectioners' sugar and beat until smooth.
Coconut Praline Coffee Cake recipe provided by Grayvesone. Grayvesone got the recipe from Teriyaki Bowl, one of Laramie finest restaurants. Teriyaki Bowl is well known in Wyoming to make great Coconut Praline Coffee Cake. Check them out at Wyoming, 82070 Laramie, 3021 East Grand Avenue.