Coffee Cake Recipe by Ruth Paget
Serves 6
Ingredients:
-1¾ cups flour
-1 cup sugar
-1 teaspoon salt
-2 teaspoons baking powder
-2 beaten eggs
-1/2 cup milk
-1 teaspoon vanilla
-1/2 cup softened butter
Steps:
1-Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
2-Mix flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder together in a mixing bowl.
3-In another bowl, mix eggs, milk, and vanilla together. Blend in the softened butter. Add liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix to form a batter.
4-Place cake batter in a greased 8-inch cake pan.
5-Bake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. For a chocolate cake, add two tablespoons Valrhona chocolate.
(A Royal Oak, Michigan recipe)
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
