If the creamer in your coffee doesn't quite satisfy your morning sugar high: this will. Enter: the coffee cake, yet another excuse to cram more cake in your diet.

Step 1: Ingredients List

What you'll need

4-5 mixing bowls
Baking pan/sheet
cooking spray
Spatula (preferably silicone but don't worry if it isn't)

The cake is made up of three parts: The streusel, the filling and the cake.

Ingredients:

Streusel

1 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup flour
1 tablespoon cinnamon
6 tablespoons of butter
1 brown sugar
1 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon

Filling:

1 cup brown sugar (packed)
1 1/2 tablespoons
1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder

Cake

12 tablespoons butter (room temp., or lightly microwaved)
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/3 brown sugar (packed)
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 large eggs
3/4 cup sour cream OR plain yogurt
1 1/4 cup milk(skim, whole, etc.)
3 3/4 cup flour

Step 2: Making the Streusel

Pour the sugar, salt, flour and cinnamon in a mixing bowl and mix until well-combined
melt butter in microwave covered for 20 seconds or until fully melted
Pour butter into dry ingredient bowl and mix until mixture mirrors the *image

*mixture should contain clumps, but don't worry if it doesn't!

Step 3: Making the Filling

Mix brown sugar and cinnamon in a separate bowl. All done here, move on to the cake!

Additionally, you can add cocoa powder for added coloring!

Step 4: Making the Cake

Mixing (Bowl one)

Beat *butter, salt, sugars, baking powder and vanilla until ingredients are well combined (insert visual)
Beat in eggs one at a time, beating between each egg

*To prevent an extended beating session, warm butter by letting it stand at room temperature, or by gently heating it in the microwave. This is so the butter is more pliable to beat; but be careful not to melt it!

Mixing (Bowl two)

Whisk sour cream/plain yogurt and milk until well combined, lumps are allowed!

Combining

Set aside 3 3/4 flour in a separate receptacle
While beating, start combining both the flour, and the mixture in bowl two interchangeably

Step 5: Assembling/Spreading

With your greased baking pan, begin pouring the cake batter into the pan, reserving around *half of the batter for another layer
After spraying your spatula with cooking spray, gently spread the batter out to the edges of the pan

*The layers don't need to be even!

Sprinkle the filling evenly
Pour remaining batter onto the filling. If needed, re-apply cooking spray to spatula. There will more than likely be parts of the filling that stick to the batter while spreading, this is ok!
Sprinkle streusel evenly

Step 6: Baking

Bake for 55-60 minutes, or until sides of the pan are dark brown.
Remove pan from oven using oven mitts
Test the cake for any uncooked batter using a toothpick or a fork. If the toothpick/fork has any wet batter attached to it, the cake is not done baking.
Cool for 20 minutes or more. Cover for future use.

Enjoy!