Coffee Cake

The Best Coffee Cake Ever!

My mother-in-law gave me this recipe. It is soooo good! I wanted to eat the whole pan when I had a piece.

· 1 ½ cups sugar

· ½ cup butter or Oil

· 2 eggs

· 1 cup buttermilk

· 3 cups flour

· 2 tsp baking powder

· 1 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 375 degrees and spray a 9x13 in. cake pan with cooking spray.

Beat the butter, sugar, and eggs in a large bowl. In a medium size bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Alternating between dry mixture and buttermilk, gradually add to sugar mixture.

Streusel

· 1 cup chopped walnuts

· 1 cup brown sugar

· 4 TBS flour

· 4 tsp cinnamon

· 4 TBS melted butter

· 4 TBS water

Mix nuts, sugar, flour and cinnamon. Then add melted butter and water.

Pour half of batter into the prepared pan; then drizzle half of streusel over batter. Swirl with a butter knife. Pour rest of batter and top with remaining streusel and swirl again with knife. Bake 30-40 min or until toothpick comes out clean

Topping

· ½ cup sugar

· ¼ c buttermilk

· ¼ cup butter

· 1 tsp vanilla

· ¼ tsp soda

In a medium saucepan melt butter, sugar and buttermilk. Bring to a boil and boil gently for 3 min. Add vanilla and soda. Pour over warm cake.

My family loves this! I always take this to families who have had a death in the family and everyone who has received a pan loves it.