Pecan and Butter Pretzel Coffee Cake

== Ingredients ==
* ½ lb butter room temperature
* 1 lb chilled butter or 4 more sticks chilled butter
* 1 cup sugar
* 2 whole eggs
* 2 cups of warm milk
* ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
* ½ tsp ground cardamon
* ½ tsp salt
* 7 cups of flour
* 2 packs dry yeast
* ½ cup warm water
* 1 tsp sugar 
== Directions ==
# In cup, mix yeast, ½ cup warm water and 1 tsp sugar and let yeast develop.
# Cream ½ lb butter or 2 sticks butter, sugar, eggs in mixing bowl.
# Add warm milk and yeast mixture and beat well.
# Add 6 cups of flour along with the salt, nutmeg and cardamon till you have a soft dough. If it is too sticky, add the last cup of flour.
# Knead for 5 minutes.
# Cover and put in a warm place till double in size.
# Divide dough into 4 sections. One for each pretzel.
# Take one section of dough and divide it into 3 equal strips.
# On floured surface stretch each strip of dough lengthwise to about 15 inches. Use fingers to do so.
# Take one stick or ¼ lb chilled butter and cut stick into 8 or 10 long narrow slivers of cold butter.
# Lay these slivers of butter on top of each of the three dough strips, about 3 slivers to a strip.
# Use up all the butter in the stick.
# Using fingers, enclose the slivers of butter by wrapping the dough over the slivers. The object is to seal the butter in the strips.
# Now braid the 3 strips with the butter enclosed. Do it gently and keep it loose.
# Put the braided pretzel into a circle in an ungreased pan.
# Sprinkle over the top of pretzel at least ¼ of a cup of coarse chopped pecans.
# Bake at 350°F oven for 30 – 35 minutes or until light brown. Do not let the pecans burn.
# While pretzel is still warm, drizzle over almond sugar icing.
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