Coffee Cake help

I recently went to a funeral and afterwards there was a coffee with a delicious "coffee cake" that looked Swedish or scandinavian in origin. It looked like it was a long strip with both sides folded towards the middle and had a brown sugar, nut, and light cinnamon filling down the middle. It had a light glaze and was lightly dusted with a few sliced almonds on top.

It was very dense but yeast raised, not like a traditional coffee cake here. Not like stollen, or pannetone or anything that is pictured on the swedish bakery website, delicious looking as they are. It was not like a richer bread like dough. The dough was very light colored, not brown. It was not a kringle. The pieces that were cut were about one inch wide, four inches long and one inch high.

It did taste a bit like Ann Sathers cinnamon buns but in another form. Could it be a Swedish Tea ring (it may be in the form of a strip rather than a ring). Anyone know what this is or have an idea of a recipe??

Wow, Toria, guess no one had a clue. I know I didn't.

A year or so ago, at Scott Waguespacks election night party (while waiting for returns), a bunch of us who helped with the campaign were packed into the small office, eating an odd mix of food brought by the volunteers. There was a cake there that I could have eaten twenty pieces of. I hate to admit it....it was like a Ho-Ho in layer form. But, good. I mean, with GOOD filling - not hydrogenated fake ingredients. I could have eaten the whole thing.

Like you, I have no idea who made it, what it was, or where to even start to find it. You certainly couldn't walk around to the funeral guests asking, "Excuse me, but who made that delicious cake?" now could you? In my case, I really don't want to find it because I'd make it and eat it and now that I'm not in the thrall of election night and eating things I never make at home, I'm SURE that it's really not that much better for me than a Ho-Ho and probably wouldn't taste nearly as good the second time around. Then again, maybe it would be worth trying it just one more time

I know its frustrating. My friend says she knows somebody at the church she can ask about it but I don't know if she has done it yet. If I find out I will post it here.

I'm fascinated, too. Is this at all close?

http://kumpulanresepkoe.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/viennese-bread/?referer=sphere_related_content/

It might be. It does look very good. Yum.