Recipe can be found @ Zesty South Indian Kitchen
What you need
For yeast coffee cake dough
Bread flour: 2 cups (300 g) I used unbleached King Arthur bread flour
Sugar: 2 tablespoon (25 g)
Salt: ½ teaspoon (3g)
Instant yeast: 1 teaspoon( 3g)
Whole milk: 1/3cup (75g)
Water: 1/4cup (55g)
Unsalted butter: 3 tablespoon (40 g) at room temperature
Large egg: 1 no at room temperature
Cardamom: 3 no ( Crushed into fine poweder)
For the meringue
Egg white of 1 large egg: I used ½ the amount
Sugar: 1 teaspoon
For the filling
Guava paste: ½ cup (125g)
Water: 2 tablespoon
All purpose flour: 1 tablespoon ( 18g)
Cream cheese: 2.5 oz ( bring to room temperature or microwave high at 15 seconds to soften)
Sour cream: 1/8 cup/41g
Cashew nuts: 1/3 cup ( 39g) chopped into fine pieces.
Egg wash: 1 egg yolk with 2 tablespoon of water
How I made
For prepare the dough:
In a large mixing bowl, combine 2 cups (300 g) of the bread flour, the sugar, salt and yeast.
In a microwave safe bowl combine the milk, water and butter and heat high for 20 seconds or until warm and the butter just gets melted. Set aside until it gets cooled for 10 seconds.
In a bowl of kitchen aid stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment add bread flour, the sugar, salt, crushed cardamom, yeast and add milk –water –butter mixture and egg combine everything to form shaggy wet dough. Loosely cover and set aside for 30 minutes to autolyse.
After 30 minutes, knead the dough to 8-10 minutes to form smooth, elastic dough. Transfer the dough to well oiled bowl and coat the dough with oil by rolling it in all sides. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside for fermentation for 1 hour 50 minutes. After 1 hour of fermentation, fold and punch down dough and set aside for rest of fermentation.
Prepare your filling:
In a microwave safe small bowl, combine the guava paste and water heat at high for 30 seconds or until guava paste melt to form a jam like consistency.
In a medium bowl beat room temperature cream cheese, sour cream and all purpose flour to smooth consistency without any lumps and set aside.
Once the dough has doubled after 1 hour 50 minutes, make the meringue.
In a clean metal bowl add egg white and beat first on low speed for 30 seconds, then increase to high and continue beating until foamy and opaque. Add a teaspoon of sugar, as you beat, until very stiff, glossy peaks form. Set aside.
Assemble the Coffee Cake:
Line a baking/cookie sheets with parchment paper.
Transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough into a 20 x 10-inch (about 51 x 25 ½ cm) rectangle. Spread half of the meringue evenly over the rectangle up to about 1/2-inch (3/4 cm) from the edges. Then spread cream cheese and guava paste evenly over the top of meringue one by one. Sprinkle chopped cashew nuts evenly over the filling.
Now, roll up the dough jellyroll style, from the long side. Pinch the seam closed to seal. Very carefully transfer the filled log to one of the lined cookie sheet, seam side down. Seal the ends together. Keep aside for second rise for about 45 minutes or until they double in size.
By the end of second rise, preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Keep an empty broiler pan in the lower rack of oven. Add boiling hot water into the broiler pan when you are ready to bake the bread. (This will create steam, necessary to make the thick crust).
When you are ready to bake make score the bread with 3-4 diagonal slit and brush the tops of the coffee cake with the egg wash. Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes until risen and golden brown. The dough should sound hollow when tapped.
Remove from the oven and slide the parchment paper off the cookie sheets onto the table. Very gently loosen the coffee cakes from the paper with a large spatula and carefully slide the cakes off onto cooling racks. Allow to cool.
Just before serving, if you wish dust the tops of the coffee cake with confectioner’s sugar . These are best eaten fresh, the same day or the next day.