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looking for an authentic recipe for a jewish russian coffee cake

i have been searching for a russian coffee cake recipe. there is a bakery in the lower east side of manhattan that sells one and sells to ZABAR'S. but i can't find anywhere on the internet. if is an amazing cake. i think it is a yeast dough, very dense, made with cinnamon, walnuts. raisins and honey and made in sheet pans.

so if anyone knows such a recipe, pls e-mail me.

thks

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Any tips for decorating cookies?

i use tempered chocolate to coat my sugar cookies. i use white chocolate and temper. then i use powdered food coloring that is used for chocolate. i use belgium chocolate. but u can use merkens and they hv colors available in disks. u can find the colors on line. any cake decorating website has. check: www.fancyflours.com

when the chocolate is tempered put in a shallow bowl, take one had and between your thumb and middle finger, dunk the top in and then shake off any residue and lay flat on parchment paper. when dry you can pipe in chocolate in any design u want. i use luster dust when dry. if u mk a heart, u can even do dk. chocolate and when dry, take a brush and dip in some gold luster dust that has been mixed with a bit of white drinking alcohol and do brush strokes on the edges. looks really nice.