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Coconut Streusel Coffee Cake Recipe

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Ingredients

1/4 tsp cloves .
1 tsp cinnamon .
3 tbsps butter .
Cake .
2 1/2 tsps baking powder .
2 c desiccated coconut .
2 tsps cinnamon .
4 oz butter, at about room temp .
2 1/2 c all-purpose flour .
Coconut Streusel .
1 tsp vanilla extract .
4 large eggs .
1/2 c unsweetened coconut milk (regular milk, or even cream, can be substituted) .
1 1/2 c sugar .
1/2 tsp baking soda .
1/4 c Grand Marnier or Cointreau liqueur .
1 tsp ginger .
1/2 tsp nutmeg .
1 orange, zest of, grated .
1/2 tsp cardamom .
1 c walnuts, sliced .
1 tsp salt .
1/2 c brown sugar

Directions

Step #1 Butter & flour an 8-inch square or round baking pan (a bundt pan also works well).
Step #2 Preheat oven to 350°F.
Step #3 For the streusel: In a small skillet or saucepan melt the butter over medium-low heat & add dessicated coconut & walnuts.
Step #4 Cook, stirring every once in awhile for 8-10 mins, or until coconut & walnuts start to get toasty & smell fragrant.
Step #5 Be careful not to burn.
Step #6 Remove from heat & stir in the brown sugar & cinnamon & empty half this mixture into the bottom of your prepared baking pan.
Step #7 Reserve other half.
Step #8 For the cake: In a small bowl, coconut milk, whisk together eggs, liqueur & orange zest.
Step #9 Set aside.
Step #10 In a large mixer bowl, cream butter with sugar for 5 mins, or until light in color & fluffy.
Step #11 You may need to scrape down the sides & bottom of bowl a couple of times with a spatula.
Step #12 Add baking powder, salt, vanilla extract, ginger, baking soda, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg & cloves.
Step #13 Add flour, alternately with wet ingredients (egg, etc.
Step #14 ) until mixed through.
Step #15 You may need to scrape down the sides & bottom of bowl a couple of times with a spatula.
Step #16 Pour 3/4 s of the batter into your prepared pan & layer with reserved streusel mixture.
Step #17 Pour remaining batter over top & run knife through pan, marbling streusel into the batter.
Step #18 Bake for approximately 1 hr & 20 mins, or until a wooden toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
Step #19 Allow to cool 20 mins before removing from pan.
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