Coffee Cake - May 20, 2012

So, it's Mother's Day today (not when I post this) and I woke up and checked facebook and saw that a friend of mine had posted a photo of her grandmother's coffee cake. I immediately got a craving, and because it was Mother's Day, I decided to indulge my craving and my little girl and I set to work.

Coffee Cake

Ingredients:

Cake:

4 Tbsp. shortening (melted)

2 eggs

1 cup sugar

1 cup milk

4 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

2 cups flour

Topping:

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 tsp. cinnamon

2 Tbsp. flour

2 Tbsp shortening - melted (I used butter)

1/2 cup nuts (optional)

Mix all cake ingredients together and scrape into a 8x8 glass pan. (I sadly don't have an 8x8 glass pan, so I used a rectangular ceramic dish). Mix topping ingredients and sprinkle over the cake batter. Bake at 375 for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. (I had to bake it almost 10 minutes longer because my middle would not bake.) Once it comes out of the oven sprinkle some cinnamon sugar on top (or powdered sugar, or make a glaze).

Husband Rating:

This guy likes cinnamon flavored stuff. He came home right as it was cooling, and he ate my test photo plate. He said it was good. I just went and grabbed another piece just now, and noticed that a whole row was missing. I think he liked it a little more than "it was good". ;)