Best Coffee Cake Ever

This coffee cake is guaranteed to get rave reviews.

Not only that, but is easy to make in a jiffy and if you do any baking, odds are you will have all the ingredients on hand. You'll find that it is a great "company's coming" recipe.

It is a modified version of the "Prize Coffee Cake" found in the 1956 version of the Betty Crocker Cookbook.

Step 1: Gather equipment

The need equipment includes:

-8x8 baking pan (preferably Pyrex)
-large mixing bowl
-small mixing bowl
-wooden spoon (for mixing the batter)
-small mixing spoon (for struesel mix)
-assorted measuring cups and spoons
-rubber spatula
-toothpick (to test if done)

(Yes, you do need an oven also!!!)

Comments

[golden snake]

hey is there anything you can substitute the baking powder for? cause i really want to make this but i have no baking powder!

[MsJan]

I would borrow from a neighbor. Most anyone has it. Or the corner store would also.

[jerpierce]

A simple recipe for baking powder is 1 part baking soda, one part cream of tarter and one part corn starch. you could try that.

[linuxmom]

Google "substitute for baking powder". If you don't have baking powder, I'm not sure what you have................sigh.

[Enchantrix]

Did this coffee cake get its name from being a cake to eat while drinking coffee. I didn't see any coffee listed in the ingredients, does it actually taste like coffee?

[staylor29a11]

very easy in everyone's pantry

[brandon borick]

the toping is so good i tryed a littel then relized i hade ate the hole bach of toping hade to make another

[linuxmom]

The trick is to make a double batch of the topping ;)

[LinuxH4x0r]

Turned out great, hope we win!

[Goodhart]

Looks really good :-) (nothing like a warm coffee cake and a little vanilla ice cream)

[linuxmom]

We've always ate in plain. Now, LinuxH4x0r is going to ask for ice crean!!

[Goodhart]

Oops, sorry *blush*

[linuxmom]

Oh well, besides loving butter, us Midwestern girls always enjoy ice cream......

[brandon borick]

same in ther serra mountens ca ruls

[linuxmom]

Thanks for all your help.

[UltraMagnus]

I don't know if i am being a little slow.... but...... there is no coffee in it? how is this coffee cake?

[linuxmom]

Coffee cake........cakes Americans eat with their coffee.............

[UltraMagnus]

I see, I guess we would call that a "tea cake" in England.... go figure.

[brandon borick]

people pour coffee on it

[theRIAA]

i... love... coffee cake how did you modify it? they really knew how to make food back in 1956.

[linuxmom]

No kidding, I love the old cookbooks! My mom (bless her soul) used shortening instead of butter in the batter. I also modified the streusel by increasing the amounts of cinnamon and brown sugar and adding butter to the streusel. (Midwestern girls love their butter!) Thanks for your comment.

[Goodhart]

My Chocolate raspberry Dobosh is from an 1989 gourmet mag.

Although, the Cake Bible I currently own dates back to 1981, I have recipes from my Mom dating back to the early 1900's

[theRIAA]

butter is always good

[Browncoat]

With the texture of the batter, do you think one could make more struessel mix & put more in the cake? Maybe "stir" it around in the mix with a toothpick...?

[linuxmom]

I have made more streusel! It really just depends on the ratio of streusel to cake one prefers. As to mixing in the streusel, I never thought about it--next time I'll give it a try. Thanks for the comment and ideas.