Finnish Coffee Cake

Photo: flickr user aburt

Ingredients

1 cup water

2 stk butter

salt

1 cup flour

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 tablespoons water

Solo almond filling

3 eggs

inch Set these 2 ingredients to boil a medium saucepan:

1 cup of water

1 stk of butter

When it begins to boil take off the heat and add:

1 cup of flour

a pinch of salt

Mix well and set this aside to cool

1 cup of flour

1 stk of butter, softened

1 teaspoon of vanilla

2 tablespoons water

Preparation

Mix this together and pat in the bottom of a cookie sheet (the kind with sides) with your fingers. This is the hardest part of the recipe. The longer you work with this mixture the softer and warmer it becomes and the easier it is to work with. Be sure and get it into the corners. It will seem at first that it just can't be done, but don't give up!

Spread the filling over the mixture in the cookie pan. I like the Solo almond filling but you could substitute any Solo filling that you prefer. Maybe try it with the almond and then next time experiment with another flavor.

Now add 3 eggs to the first mixture that you set aside. This is your top and it is very cream puff-like. After mixing each egg in one at a time...spread this over the Solo filling. Be careful as the almond filling will come up. Bake for 55 minutes at 350 .After it is slightly cooled, I just drizzle and spread with the normal confectioner's sugar frosting on the coffee cake. I usually flavor the frosting with vanilla so as not to make the coffee cake taste too strongly of almonds.