Orange cream cheese coffee cake dessert recipe

Recipe ingredients:

1 3-ounce package cream cheese

1/4 cup firm margarine or butter

2-1/2 cups baking mix, like Bisquik, Jiffy, or homemade biscuit dry ingredients.

1/2 cup orange juice

1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened

1/3 cup orange marmalade or peach marmalade

Set your oven for 400 degrees F. Cut the 3-ounce package of cream cheese and 1/4 cup of margarine or butter into the baking mix. Use a pastry cutter or electric mixer to do this. Next add the orange juice to the baking mix and stir until dough forms. Then empty dough onto surface dusted with baking mix and knead briefly, only about 10 times. Now roll the dough with a rolling pin into a rectangle about 15 x 9 inches. Immediately transfer dough rectangle onto large cookie sheet.

For the filling, mix the soft 8-ounce package of cream cheese with the marmalade until it is well blended and has nice smooth consistency. Spread this filling down the center of the dough rectangle leaving at least 2 to 3 inches of uncovered dough on each long side of the rectangle. Then cut lines 1 inch apart through the bare dough along the long sides of the dough rectangle perpendicular to the filling. Fold these 1-inch strips of dough over the filling, overlapping each strip with a strip from the other side of the dough. The effect will be that you are covering the filling with a braid of dough.

After covering the filling, pinch the ends of the braid shut so filling does not squirt out the ends. Bake for about 20 minutes until coffee cake is golden brown. Cool the coffee cake completely, either on the pan or a wire rack if you have one. Then drizzle with a chocolate glaze made of:

1/2 cup powdered sugar

2 Tablespoons cocoa

1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 to 4 teaspoons of milk.

Stir these glaze ingredients together thoroughly until they are smooth and runny.

This coffee cake is delicious. It is best the first day, as is the case for most coffee cakes, but remains quite delicious if you have leftovers. Be sure to put leftovers in the refrigerator because the cream cheese filling should not stay out at room temperature for an extended period.

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