Cinnamon In Every Bite Coffee Cake

  Buttermilk Coffee Cake

 Talk about a delicious not too sweet coffee cake! This cake is full of cinnamon with a wonderful crumb topping. It's a nice moist cake with cinnamon flavor in every bite. 

The Recipe

 

Ingredients

 

2 1/2 cups of flour

1/2 tsp. of salt

1 tsp. baking powder

1 cup buttermilk

1 tsp. baking soda

1 beaten egg

3/4 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup white sugar

3/4 cup of vegtable oil

1 tsp. cinnamon

Mix flour, salt and both sugars in a large mixing bowl. Add vegtable oil and mix until ingredients crumble together. Set aside 1 cup of mixture.

In a small bowl add baking soda, beaten egg, baking powder and cinnamon to the buttermilk. Slowly pour milk mixture into flour mixture mixing until just combined. Batter will be runnie. Pour batter into a 9x13 cake pan lined with wax paper. Top cake batter with reserved crumble topping. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean. 

 

ENJOY!

A Cake...with Fruit Cocktail!? YES!

Fruit Cocktail Cake  

This recipe is one of my grandma's hand written recipes. It is her own recipe and also according to her is my aunt Donna's favorite cake. So naturally if it's my aunt Donna's favorite cake I HAD to make it. And wow! I see why that is! This is one of the moistest cakes I have ever made. And there is NO butter or oil in the recipe! You have to love old fashion recipes. I never knew that a can of fruit cocktail could taste so good.

The Original Recipe

Fruit Cocktail Cake 

Ingredients

2 eggs divided

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 cups of flour

1 1/2 tsp. of baking soda

1 can of fruit cocktail

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup pecans

In a large mixing bowl beat together sugar and 2 egg yolks. In separate bowl mix together flour and baking soda. Gradually add dry ingredients alternating with fruit cocktail. Mix until blended. Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold egg whites into cake mixture. Spread into a greased 9x13 cake pan. Sprinkle brown sugar and pecans on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean.

Frosting

1 Cup of sugar

1 Cup of evaporated milk

1 stick of butter

Cook all ingredients on stove top until thickened. Spread over warm cake. Eat and enjoy!

Everything's Bigger in Texas...Especially The Flavor!

Introducing Texas Coffee Cake

 

My husband said this is the best thing I've ever baked. The butter flavor  sinks throughout the cake. The brown sugar and cinnamon mixture in the middle really makes this the perfect coffee cake. Also, you can sprinkle the icing with chopped pecans for some added flavor and to just look pretty.

 

 The Original Recipe

 

Texas Coffee Cake Recipe

Ingredients for cake:

1 box of yellow cake mix

1 1/2 cups sour cream

3 eggs

2 tsp. butter extract

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Ingredients for filling:

1 Tbs. cinnamon

1/4 cup melted butter

1/2 cup chopped nuts

1 cup brown sugar

In a small bowl mix together and set aside 2/3 cup yellow cake mix, cinnamon, butter, nuts and brown sugar. Mix until crumblie

Grease and flour a 9x13 pan. Mix together the remaining cake mix, sour cream, eggs, butter extract and vanilla extract until smooth. About 3 minutes. 

Pour half of cake batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle with half of filling mixture. Repeat with rest of the batter and sprinkle the remaining filling on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Icing:

2 cups sifted powdered sugar

1/4 cup melted butter

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 tsp. butter extract

Mix all ingredients together with enough milk to make it easy to spread. Frost while cake is HOT.