Sutters' pecan ring

Anybody (besides you, Mom) remember Sutters Bakery, which used to be on Greenwich Avenue lo these 30 years ago? They made a wonderful pecan ring--a moist, buttery yeast-based coffee cake with lots of rich, toasted pecans. Can anyone suggest a substitute?

[almayee]

Loved Sutters- went to the one in the Village in the 60's and 70's till it closed down. I remember the crossaints, mocha layer cake with apricot in between, nut cake with raspberry jam - I'll never forget the smell as soon as you walked in! There are still some great bakeries (ie Balthazar in Englewood) but the good ones are usual small with less selection - nothing compares to Sutters!

[son of a butcher]

There was also a Sutter's on Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn. I do remember their cheese danish and pecan coffee cake. Real good. Back then it was a good bakery. Today it would considered excellent.

[cvthinker]

Wonderful Sutter's. I grew up on 12th St and on Sunday morning got up early to run the 3 blocks to Sutters and stand in line for a fresh, hot and fragrant pecan coffee ring for my mother and me to devour along with the Sunday Times! The only rival for my heart would be Sutter's shell-shaped cookies - two melt in your mouth shells with raspberry jam between - I cannot even remember what they were called!

[neighborm]

As a kid, I worked in Sutter's on Greenwich. I packed cookies. The cookie that you enjoyed so much was called a clam. All Sutter's cookies were entirely hand-made. I placed the raspberry filling on one half and then came back to top it with another half. The same clam shape was used with a plain dough where the narrow end was first dipped into chocolate and finished with crushed pistachios. These were known as a pistachio tip.

[ebaione]

My husband grew up in the Bronx where there apparently also was a Sutter's. He h as the same Marcel Proust memories about the coffee ring. I love to bake and have tried to duplicate it from my own memories of it. I would love if someone could approximate those delicious coffee cakes. I'm still looing and dreaming.

SIGH! I grew up on 11th Street, around the block from Sutter's. We were always taken there as a treat, but all I remember ever getting was either crumb cake or cherry danishes. I loved them so much I couldn't bear to try anything else! Glad someone else remembers the place.

Every time we visited NY from So Cal, my grandmother and I would board the plane with boxes full of Sutter's cakes. Some from Ebinger's too! No matter how good the bakeries were out here, somehow they just never equalled those two.