If a Cinnamon Roll and Focaccia Had a Baby, It Would Be This Cake | Bake Time | NYT Cooking

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Vaughn shows us how to make a pillowy cake dimpled with pockets of caramelized cinnamon sugar that he and his family eat every Christmas: Moravian sugar cake.

Not quite cake (though it’s a close cousin to coffee cake), and not quite bread (though it looks like a sugar-laden focaccia), it’s perhaps most similar in spirit to cinnamon rolls. The secret ingredient is mashed potato, which gets folded into an enriched yeasted dough that’s quite sticky but requires very little kneading and minimal proofing.

A popular holiday treat with origins in what is now the Czech Republic, it can be found at Moravian bakeries in North Carolina and Pennsylvania — but can also be made easily at home.

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