Pastry and baked goods have been served with coffee since antiquity. This recipe offers a quick, easy, and sweet cinnamon treat to enhance your coffee experience.
E-Z Coffee Cake
- Preparation time: 10 minutes
- Cook time: 20 minutes
- Ready in: 30 minutes
- Servings: 8
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 cups baking mix
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2/3 cup milk
- 1 egg
Topping
- 1/2 cup baking mix
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons margarine or cold butter
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 400 F.
- Grease a 9-inch baking pan.
- For cake:
- Combine baking mix with sugar
- Add milk and egg and beat vigorously for 1/2 minute or until just moistened
- Spread into the greased cake pan
- For topping:
- Combine baking mix with brown sugar and cinnamon
- Mix in margarine until crumbly
- Sprinkle topping over batter
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
- Cool on a wire rack.
Notes
- For the baking mix, use a pre-packaged biscuit mix, such as Bisquick.
- To lighten the recipe, use sugar substitutes, low-fat (skim) milk, low-fat biscuit mix, and egg substitutes.
- Add 1/2 cup of your favorite chopped nuts to the topping mix.
- Add 1/2 cup raisins to the cake mix.
Whether enjoying my first cup while watching the sun rise over the Blue Ridge from my deck or over the Potomac from my train seat, I like mine bare-footed - strong, hot, and black. Besides coffee and baseball, I enjoy creating quality technical documentation for my clients.
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