German Coffee Cake

Here is another coffee cake recipe. You can never have too many of these. At least that seems to be the opinion of all these cook books. There are plenty more and they all seem to vary in some way. Luckily, all coffee cake seems to be very easy to make and, so far, they all have different flavors.

I'm guessing that the ingredient which made this coffee cake German was the nutmeg. I didn't use nutmeg when I made this recipe because most people around here don't like that flavor much. I just doubled the amount of cinnamon. I also didn't put nuts in it. Other than that, it is a very yummy coffee cake!

German Coffee Cake (Printer-friendly PDF Recipe)

2 C flour

1/4 t nutmeg

1/4 t cinnamon

1 t salt

4 t baking powder

3/4 C sugar

1/4 C shortening

2 eggs

1 C milk

1/4 C butter, softened or melted

1 C brown sugar, packed

1 C nuts

1/2 t cinnamon

4 T flour

In a bowl, stir together the flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt. Set aside.

Mix together the sugar and shortening until well combined.

Beat in the eggs for about 30 seconds.

Alternate mixing in the flour and milk. I did three additions of flour and two additions of milk. Pour this batter into a 9x13inch greased pan.

Stir together the butter, brown sugar, nuts, cinnamon, and flour.

Sprinkle the brown sugar mixture over the batter in the pan.

Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Cool for at least 10 minutes before cutting. The cake is very soft and crumbly!

Enjoy!