Type | Coffee cake |
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Place of origin | United States |
Region or state | Pennsylvania, Ohio, and North Carolina |
Main ingredients | Flour, mashed potatoes, yeast, butter, brown sugar, cinnamon |
Moravian sugar cake is a sweet coffee cake that is often made in areas around Moravian Church settlements, particularly in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. It is made with a sweet yeast dough enriched with mashed potatoes.