how to prepare Coffee Cake

                                                              Coffee Cake

                                                            

Ingredients:

2 cups    brown sugar, packed

2 cups    all-purpose flour

1/8 tsp    salt

1           large egg

4 ounces   butter, cold, cut in pieces

1 cup          buttermilk or sour milk

1 tsp      baking soda

1 tsp      baking powder

1 tsp      vanilla

method:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour an 8-inch square baking pan.

2. Combine flour, brown sugar, and salt in a mixing bowl; cut in butter until the mixture coarse crumbs form. Take out 1 cup of crumbs and put aside.

3. Combine egg, buttermilk, baking powder, baking soda and vanilla, whisk until smooth; stir into the remaining crumbs in bowl. Spread in the prepared baking pan.

4. Sprinkle reserved crumbs evenly over the batter. Bake for 30 minutes.