recipe: coffee cake

This is one of my favorites. Nothing fancy, just really good and so full of sugar.



Coffee Cake

1 cup oil
2 eggs beaten
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup milk
1 cup sugar
3 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup margarine/butter melted

Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease a 9 X 13 inch pan.
In a large mixing bowl. combine oil, eggs, vanilla and milk together.
In a medium bowl, blend together sugar, flour, baking powder and salt.
Combine egg mixture with flour mixture.
In a medium bowl, prepare streusel by combining brown sugar and cinnamon.
Sprinkle half of streusel on top of the batter. Top with remaining batter and then sprinkle the remaining streusel on top.
Drizzle with melted margarine and bake uncovered for 25-30 minutes.

Options:
Add: pecans, walnuts, macadamia nuts to topping. You can also trade out half the brown sugar for white if you run out, just mix well.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

sounds delish

olive oil, canola, what?

[alexseanchai]

So when adding to pan, it goes half batter, half streusel, half batter, half streusel? That's what I just did, it will probably work fine, I'm just thinking in terms of clarifying for the next confused baker :)

[alexseanchai]

V tasty btw. Sweet enough I will need black-or-nearly coffee or tea or something with it in future, though I suppose that's the point?

Thanks!

[seperis]

You can safely cut the sugar to your taste; its very sweet, yeah, but it allows a lot lot lot of variation.

I have another one you might like, though technically speaking it's not coffee cake but a bread you use as coffee cake. Let me find it; it's much less sweet, a little more bread like, and you can toast it! Also allows a ton of variation.

[alexseanchai]

oooo²

[seperis]

https://seperis.dreamwidth.org/1049849.html

Treat it like a bread with a loaf pan and slice and toast. You can also cut the sugar if you want in this one, but experiment with that. I've also made it with light brown sugar and white as I ran out of white sugar once and it worked fine.

[dragonlady7]

oh this is really similar to the Classic Coffee Cake my mother makes every time we have a chicken processing day. she tries to mix it up but the crew demands the classic one.
sometimes she adds chocolate chips to the streusel, because my niece likes that. :)

[sprocket]

Mmm, sounds delicious.

[stranger]

How about using brown sugar in the cake? Does that work out, or make it heavy?

[seperis]

I should have mentioned that! A little heavier, but the flavor--to me--is even better. You can also go half and half for the brown/white in the recipe which worked.

[stranger]

Glad to know! I like brown sugar in a lot of things that call for white-by-default, too.