Basic Coffee Cake Recipe

Basic Coffee Cake

From borinda 17 years ago

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25 minutes to make
Serves 9

This is a 9" square cake which can use the streusel filling with nuts and raisins, chocolate chips, blueberries, etc. It is fun to come up with new variations and is quick and easy to make and freezes well, too.

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Ingredients

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3/4 cup sugar shopping list
1/4 cup sweet butter, room temp shopping list
1 egg shopping list
1 cup milk -- OR -- sour cream shopping list
1 tsp vanilla extract shopping list
1 1/2 cup sifted all-purpose flour shopping list
2 tsp baking powder shopping list
1/2 tsp salt shopping list
Streusel: shopping list
1/2 cup brown sugar shopping list
2 Tbsp all-purpose flour shopping list
2 Tbsp softened butter shopping list
2 tsp cinnamon shopping list
1/4 cup chopped nuts, or chocolate chips, and/or raisins shopping list
2 Tbsp shredded coconut - optional shopping list

How to make it

Grease a 9" cake pan and dust lightly with dried breadcrumbs
Cream the butter and sugar. Add the egg. Alternately add the dry, sifted ingredients and the milk with the vanilla mixed into it.
Pour half the batter into the prepared pan. Top with 1/2 the streusel and a bit of the coconut. Top with the remaining batter and then the streusel.
Bake until tests done. I find it varies greatly by the oven it's baked in, ranging from 25 minutes to 45, so just test it to be sure. That is the only "fussiness" of this recipe, it is easy and reliable.

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culrich1989 11 years ago
My family loves coffee cake it's our most favorite morning breakfast but w/ moving we misplaced our cookbooks thanks for the recipe. :)
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txbackyardcook ate it and said...
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT
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adamdavida ate it and said...
This recipe is delicious! Thanks for sharing.

I ended up cooking it at 375 F for 30-35 minutes.
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trishcortani 15 years ago
I make the Bisquick Coffee Cake a lot; so much that I know the recipe by heart. This one seems a lot like it, just without the nuts or coconut. I've never thought about using ingredients like that. Sounds like a crowd pleaser!
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ritenjeks 16 years ago
Ooh thanks you saved my life I'm out of shortening and I have to make something like this over the weekend for school and you just saved me *huggles*
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jess ate it and said...
Hey Borinda, I made this recipe this morning and I loved it. I will definitely make it again.
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jess ate it and said...
Making this on Sunday morning to go with my morning coffee for breakfast....sounds wonderful and I haven't had coffee cake in a long time.
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borinda ate it and said...
Not rude - asking a question. Coffee cake is often referred to as ones served with a cup of coffee where we come from. The "basic" reference is because the batter is lovely adn you can doctor up and personalize this recipe with what you include. I use chocolate chips, nuts, berries, etc. at different bakings and according to what's in my house and who's going to eat it. The cake seems to please us all in its variations and is hence fun to play with.
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nemolad 16 years ago
Why is it called basic coffee cake when there is clearly no coffee based ingredients !?! don't mean to be rude, but i'm thinking of making coffee cake tomorrow. cheers. plz reply ..asap..

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borinda ate it and said...
I hope you enjoy this, it really should be great for a Saturday or sunday brunch.
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msbooch75 ate it and said...
Love this recipe and lots of your other ones. Going to make this one for Saturday morning.
Thanks
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Love this recipe and lots of your other ones. Going to make this one for Saturday morning.
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msbooch75 in Ocean Springs loved it
I hope you enjoy this, it really should be great for a Saturday or sunday brunch.

borinda in SoCal loved it
Not rude - asking a question. Coffee cake is often referred to as ones served with a cup of coffee where we come from. The "basic" reference is because the batter is lovely adn you can doctor up and personalize this recipe with what you include. I...more

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