Moravian Sugar Cake

1 envelope dry yeast

½ cup lukewarm water

1 cup milk

1 cup mashed potatoes

2 eggs

½ cup sugar

6 cups flour

⅔ cup Crisco

2 tsp salt

Topping:

2 cup light brown sugar

1 cup flour

2 sticks butter

Cinnamon

Put dry yeast in bowl with warm water. Heat the milk lukewarm. Stir yeast mixture. Then add the milk, mashed potatoes, eggs, Crisco, ½ cup sugar and 2 tsp salt. Mix with hands until well blended. Add the flour, 3 cups at a time.Knead the dough on a floured surface. Keep adding small amounts of flour to keep from sticking. Knead about 10 minutes. Put dough back in bowl; cover with cloth and let it rise until double in size, about 2 hours.Punch it down; divide in half.

Spread out on 2 cookie sheets until about ½ inch high. Cover with cloth, let rise about 1 hour.Mix with your hands the light brown sugar and 1 cup flour until all lumps are gone. Using 1 stick of butter, make bullet holes in one cake. Spread ½ the sugar mixture over top, then sprinkle cinnamon over top. Do same to second tray when first is almost finished baking. Bake 15 minutes, or until brown around edges, at 375°.

Source: WO Church Cookbook

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