Blum S Coffee Crunch Cake Sf

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Blum s coffee crunch cake sf. The blum s recipe was a long held. Recreate the bay area classic in your own home. Directions for the coffee crunch. 5 large eggs separated plus 2 large egg whites.

Martha recreates the iconic dessert from blum s bakery in san francisco. It s no wonderful that this cake survived from the blum s food empire. Blum s coffee crunch cake. 1 1 2 cups 10 5 ounces sugar.

Blum s coffee crunch cake. It teams a light sponge cake with rich coffee frosting and crunchy shards of coffee flavored candy. Now she s turned her attention to blum s coffee crunch cake the beloved sf treat also served at places like japantown s yasukochi s sweet stop. Add the sugar coffee and corn syrup to the pot and cook over medium high heat stirring occasionally with a heatproof silicone spatula until the mixture reaches 270 f about 10 minutes.

Obviously this along with its even more famous sibling blum s coffee crunch cake is one of those icons forever inscribed in the bay area s collective culinary memory. 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest. The coffee crunch was on the top list of must eat sweets in san francisco 7 x 7 magazine. 1 2 teaspoon kosher salt.

1 4 cup 2 ounces canola oil. 1 teaspoon cream of tartar. Blum s coffee crunch cake serves 8 for chiffon cake. When the blum s stores closed in the 70s the recipe for coffee crunch cake was still a well kept secret.

Blum s had a store here in san mateo. Sift flour 3 4 cup sugar and the salt onto a sheet of wax paper. Aside from it s it ice cream sandwiches if there s one dessert that is inextricably linked with san francisco it has to be the coffee crunch cake from the. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.

The came is a very light sponge. Inside the cake was a lemon vanilla sponge that was smothered in whipped cream and its outside was coated in a shell of bittersweet coffee crunch candy.