Pecan Streusel Coffee Cake
An old-fashioned classic! I always loved this as a child. Tastes great with a cold glass of milk, although nowadays i like to have a nice cup of cappuccino. :)
Steps
Preheat oven to 350f grease bottoms and sides of 8-inch cake pan.
Dust with flour.
To make streusel topping: mix together brown sugar , sugar , flour , cinnamon , mace , ginger , and allspice.
Using pastry blender or fork , cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
Add pecans and work some of the mixture onto the nuts.
Set aside.
To make cake: cream together butter , brown sugar , and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add eggs and vanilla , mixing until smooth.
Separately combine flour , baking powder , baking soda , and salt.
Mix well.
Mix together dry ingredients with creamed butter and buttermilk , alternating with each , blending well after each addition.
Pour half of batter into pan and smooth out.
Sprinkle half of streusel over batter.
Pour remaining batter into pan and cover with remaining streusel.
Bake at 350f for 30-45 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Remove cake from oven and cool in pan 15-20 minutes.
To remove from pan , invert .
Ingredients
light brown sugar, sugar, all-purpose flour, cinnamon, ground mace, ground ginger, ground allspice, butter, pecans, eggs, vanilla extract, baking powder, baking soda, salt, buttermilk