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Favorite Coffee Cake

By Lorraine

Easy recipe for a favorite coffee cake with a brown sugar crumb topping. Perfect for breakfast with coffee or at break time.
Favorite Coffee Cake, that is what it is called in my old Betty Crocker Cookbook. And it was a favorite made for us for breakfast by our granddaughter.
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I am an early riser but Shaela got up even earlier during a recent visit just so she could have warm-from-the-oven coffee cake for us to enjoy. Kid’s like to be in the kitchen and there are many recipes that are not complicated and produce good results. This coffee cake is one of them.

Here is Shaela! She’s got spunk, personality and is sweet to the core. Could you tell 😉

She just celebrated her 10th birthday!

Making coffee cake again

Easy recipe for a favorite coffee cake with a brown sugar crumb topping. Perfect for breakfast with coffee or at break time.

After we returned home from our visit with Shaela and our kids in upstate, New York, I still had coffee cake on my mind. With weekend plans to be outside stacking firewood and raking leaves with our New Jersey grandkids, I made the coffee cake recipe.

Easy recipe for a favorite coffee cake with a brown sugar crumb topping. Perfect for breakfast with coffee or at break time.

As coffee cake should be, this one has a light and tender crumb with a wonderful, brown sugar and cinnamon topping. A welcoming treat after some hard work!

Coffee Cake Recipe

source Betty Crocker Cookbook

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Serves 9-12

Ingredients

  • 1½ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¾ sugar
  • 2½ tsp baking powder
  • ¾ tsp salt
  • ¼ cup butter, softened (or shortening)
  • ¾ cup milk
  • 1 egg

COFFEE CAKE TOPPING:

  • ⅓ cup brown sugar, packed
  • ¼ cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • 3 Tbsp firm butter, in small pieces

 

 

Easy recipe for a favorite coffee cake with a brown sugar crumb topping. Perfect for breakfast with coffee or at break time.

In a bowl, stir together the brown sugar, flour and cinnamon. Add the chilled butter and with a fork or pastry cutter, cut in the butter until evenly combined and the mixture is crumbly.

 

 

Easy recipe for a favorite coffee cake with a brown sugar crumb topping. Perfect for breakfast with coffee or at break time.

 

Cake batter directions:

 

Easy recipe for a favorite coffee cake with a brown sugar crumb topping. Perfect for breakfast with coffee or at break time.

Place  flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, softened butter, milk and egg in a mixing bowl.

 

 

Easy recipe for a favorite coffee cake with a brown sugar crumb topping. Perfect for breakfast with coffee or at break time.

With mixer, beat mixture 2 minutes.

 

 

Easy recipe for a favorite coffee cake with a brown sugar crumb topping. Perfect for breakfast with coffee or at break time.

Pour batter into prepared baking dish. NOTE: In these photos, I doubledthe recipe and baked two coffee cakes. One for us and one for a friend.

 

 

Easy recipe for a favorite coffee cake with a brown sugar crumb topping. Perfect for breakfast with coffee or at break time.

Here are the coffee cakes with the topping sprinkled on top and ready to go into the oven to bake.

 

 

 

Heat oven to 375 degrees.

Grease a round layer pan (9 x 1 1/2 inches) or square pan (8 x 8 x 2 or 9 x 9 x 2 inches).

With mixer, blend all cake ingredients. Beat well for 2 minutes. Spread into pan.

Sprinkle topping evenly over batter.

Bake 25-30 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

Serve warm.

Easy recipe for a favorite coffee cake with a brown sugar crumb topping. Perfect for breakfast with coffee or at break time.
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Easy recipe for a favorite coffee cake with a brown sugar crumb topping. Perfect for breakfast with coffee or at break time.

   

Filed Under: Cakes & Cupcakes, Recipes, Sweet Treats Tagged With: shaela

Comments

  1. Alejandra galeano says

    November 21, 2017 at 12:12 am

    I baked this easy to follow recipe and my family enjoyed it very much. Thank you it is moist and super yummy!!!

    Reply
  2. Maria says

    October 21, 2017 at 10:19 am

    I have been making this coffee cake for years…. I have added chopped pecans to the topping. Blueberries or Cranberries added to the batter is great as well. Might dice up some apple to add to it as well….

    Reply
  3. Preeti says

    November 17, 2016 at 5:28 am

    Looks yummy!! Your granddaughter is sweet 🙂
    Thanks for sharing, I love coffee flavoured things. But I did not see any specific ingredient, what gives the coffee flavour to the cake?

    Reply
  4. NanaDiana says

    November 17, 2016 at 2:21 am

    I have made that particular one several times over the years, Lorraine. It is good and easy and everyone always likes it. xo Diana

    Reply
  5. Karen says

    November 17, 2016 at 2:21 am

    Mother had that Old Betty Crocker cookbook. My grandkids would love the coffeecake. Hope you have a nice weekend.

    Reply
  6. My Recent Favorite Books says

    November 17, 2016 at 12:41 am

    She is so cute!

    The Coffee Cake sounds delicious!

    Reply
  7. Cheryl says

    November 16, 2016 at 2:08 pm

    Warm coffee cake would be the perfect autumn morning treat…yummy fuel for those outdoor tasks!

    Your spunky Shaela is a doll!!

    Reply
  8. Summer says

    November 16, 2016 at 1:59 pm

    Cute girl and a yummy recipe! Happy Wednesday ♥

    Reply

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