Recipe #7 Coffee Cake

Never having had much exposure to coffee cake I kind of always thought it had coffee in it or a flavor that sort of resembled coffee. This is not the case with this cake; rather it appears to be a cake you serve with coffee, when you have company over.

Prep time: Under 10 minutes

Cost: Under $5, it was just the raisins and the shortening that I did not have in my pantry.

Verdict: Not that exciting and kind of dry, I thought it might have been more exciting if I created a thicker topping by adding butter to the cinnamon sugar topping and I could have done without the raisins.

Here is my Grandma’s recipe

2 ½ cups cake flour

1 tsp. baking powder

½ tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. ground mace (I did not have mace so I substituted nutmeg)

8 tbsp. shortening (Here she goes with the shortening again)

¾ cup brown sugar

1 egg

¾ cup sour milk

1 cup seedless raisins

2 tbsps. sugar

¼ tsp. cinnamon

Sift salt, mace, baking powder and soda.

Cream shortening and blend in sugar.

Add dry ingredients to make crumbly mixtures. Set ¾ cup aside for toppings. Beat egg add milk stir in raisins.

Put in greased pan and sprinkle with crumbs mixture bake at 350 F for 1 hour.