Easy Coffee Cake Recipe – Jam Filled Butterfly Ring
This easy coffee cake recipe is extra delicious because of its yummy fruit jam filling! It’s easy to make as a cherry, strawberry, raspberry or blueberry coffee cake by just using different fruit filling!
- Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients
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2 1/2 cups baking mix
1 Tbsp. sugar
1 egg, beaten
2/3 cup milk
Filling:
2 Tbsp. butter, melted
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup nuts (optional)
1/4 cup cherry jam or jelly (Raspberry, strawberry or any other jam or jelly will also work.)
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1 Tbsp. all purpose flour
Instructions
- Grease a jellyroll sheet.
- Preheat the oven to 375°.
- Mix the first four ingredients until well blended. The dough will be sticky.
- Knead on a lightly floured surface 18 times.
- Roll out into an 11×14 inch rectangle.
- For the filling, add the filling ingredients to the melted butter.
- Blend until smooth. If necessary, heat the jam 30 seconds in the microwave to make it smooth.
- Spread the filling onto the dough.
- Roll the dough lengthwise, like a jelly roll, and seal the edges by pinching them together.
- Form into a circle on the jellyroll pan.
- Cut 4 to 5 slits in the top to release steam.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- Cool and frost with buttercream frosting.
