Whole Wheat Coffee Cake

Tonight I made some coffee cake for the first time. I was worried it didn't come out right, but I looked at coffee cake pictures online and saw lots of variation. Also, taste is most important, and it tastes delicious. Here's the recipe I'm using.

Whole Wheat Coffee Cake

· 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
· 3/4 cup brown sugar
· 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
· 3/4 teaspoon salt
· 1/4 cup butter
· 3/4 cup milk
· 1 egg

· 1/2 cup brown sugar
· 1/2 cup chopped nuts
· 2 teaspoons cinnamon
· 2 Tbsp. butter, melted

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Grease a 9" square baking pan.

2. To make the cake, mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

3. Add the butter, milk, and egg. Mix well.

4. Spread half the batter in the prepared baking pan.

5. To make the topping, combine the brown sugar, nuts, cinnamon and melted butter.

6. Sprinkle half the topping mixture evenly over the batter.

7. Spread the remaining cake batter over this and sprinkle evenly with the remaining topping.

8. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool for a few minutes before serving.

That's a lot of salt, isn't it? Originally this recipe called for shortening, white sugar, and used half whole wheat flour and half white. I amended it. Originally it made 16 servings too. Yeah right!