Rich Coffee Cake Dough

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 1998

To give this rich, breadlike coffee cake a tender crumb and a melt-in-your-mouth texture, use plenty of butter, mix the dough very thoroughly, and make sure you let it rise twice.

SERVES 16 to 20 (Makes enough for 2 small cakes)

TIME 40 minutes, plus 2 to 3 hours rising and 4 hours chilling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Because the coffee cake recipe we envisioned was to be light yet rich, with a brioche-type texture, we knew that it would need a relatively high proportion of eggs (we settled on four). We were after richness without heaviness, and this was...

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