Spiral Coffee Cake with Nuts and Orange Marmalade

58 CommentsWednesday • May 27, 2009 • by Ari

It’s hard to describe the sheer awesomeness of this coffee cake, with its beautiful spirals and layers of brown sugar, pecans, walnuts and orange marmalade. But for you, I will try. Imagine the aroma of warm sugar and nuts, think about the sensation of fresh, fluffy bread melting in your mouth. That is this coffee cake.

I decided to play around with this recipe yesterday afternoon, even sharing some of my progress on Twitter. I was hoping, really hoping, that the finished product would resemble what I had in mind – namely, those mini, spiral coffee cakes my dad used to munch on with his morning coffee when I was kid. He bought them at the local grocery store but my version would be homemade. And jumbo sized. With lots of nuts. And orange marmalade! When I pulled the coffee cake out of the oven and inhaled its cinnamon and nutmeg spiced aroma I knew I was onto something. Dad would love this coffee cake.

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