New Jersey Coffee Cake

 

I have been thinking...BRUNCH.  The reason I've been thinking brunch is that just one week after celebrating my son's birthday with a dinner, I need to do the same for my husband.  His is scheduled for this Sunday at 2:00, but word has it that we're going to add to our already ten inches of snow on the ground with an additional accumulation scheduled to hit the area at, you guessed it 2:00 on Sunday.  We both watched the weather forecast this evening, looked at each other, and I brightly said, "Brunch!" as though I'd just come up with the answer to the mystery of the universe.

As my husband is from New Jersey this will be the perfect sweet to serve.  And let me tell you it's easy and bakery-shop delicious.  Try this and your friends will be amazed at your culinary talents.  You don't even have to tell them that it's a box mix.  So don't!  Let them be impressed!  We all need a few little secrets up our sleeves, do we not?  It also makes three so you can freeze two for later, or give the others as a gift (which is what I generally do and people are so grateful they fall all over themselves thanking me).

Doesn't this just look like something from a bakery shop window?

Look at that crumb topping!  Is your mouth watering yet?

 

New Jersey Coffee Cake

1 box Duncan Hines yellow cake mix 

Prepare cake mix as directed; pour into 3 eight-inch round cake pans. Bake for 15 minutes at temperature specified on box.  (Cake will look wet.)

While cakes are baking, prepare the following crumb mix by mixing the following ingredients together until crumbly:

 4 c. flour

4 sticks of butter, softened

1 1/3 c. sugar

2 T. cinnamon

1 T. vanilla

 Sprinkle the crumb mixture over the cakes once they have baked the first 15 minutes, and bake them another 17-20 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Let cool completely and sprinkle thoroughly with powdered sugar.

 I always make these in the 8" clear-lidded disposable pans (conveniently sold in sets of three) as it makes it easier for giving.

The perfect accompaniment to the morning paper.

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