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Waffle Crumb Coffee Cake

Waffle Crumb Coffee Cake
An Italian in my Kitchen
Yield: 10 servings
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Categories: dessert breakfast

Ingredients

Cake Batter

  • 2 cups flour

  • 3/4 cup sugar

  • 2 teaspoons baking powder

  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

  • 1/3 cup butter

  • 1 cup milk

  • 2 eggs

  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Topping

  • 1 1/2-2 cups left-over cake broken into not-large crumbs (or about 4 waffles worth)

  • 2 tablespoons flour

  • 2/3 cup brown sugar

  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon

  • 3 1/2 tablespoons butter

Instructions

  1. Pre-heat oven to 320° (160° celsius) Grease and flour a 9 inch cake pan.

Topping

  1. In a medium bowl mix together cake crumbs, flour, sugar and cinnamon, cut in butter and combine to form crumbs. Set aside.

Cake

  1. In a small pot add butter and milk, heat until butter is melted, remove from heat and let cool.

  2. Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.

  3. Whisk together cooled butter/milk mixture, eggs and vanilla, then fold into flour mixture and continue folding until combined (there will be some lumps), spoon into prepared cake pan, top with topping and bake approximately 40-60 minutes or until toothpick comes clean and dry. Enjoy!

Notes

Serve drizzled in syrup, and slightly warm. Cooked in pie pan was too difficult, maybe in square pan with smaller servings.