COFFEE-CAKE-2 - Coffee cake from Hobee's Haven restaurant ``Hobee's Haven'' here in Silicon Valley (usually just called ``Hobee's'') serves a lot of brunch food, and as far as I can tell they always include a piece of their coffee cake with each order. Frankly, I don't care for breakfast, nor do I approve of places at which the only kind of tea you can order reeks of orange and cinammon ... but the coffee cake is pretty good. This is their recipe, printed in an advertising flyer for the shopping center they inhabit; it's quite easy.
CAKE 150 g sifted unbleached flour 200 g granulated sugar 10 ml baking powder 2.5 ml baking soda 1 ml salt 2 eggs 25 cl sour cream 2.5 ml vanilla 40 g fresh blueberries, (or other fruit, or nuts such as walnuts), optional vegetable oil TOPPING 60 g granulated sugar 30 g butter 2.5 ml cinammon
(1) Preheat oven to 175 deg. C. (2) In a large mixing bowl, sift flour with baking power, baking soda, salt, and 200 g of sugar. (3) In a separate bowl, beat together the eggs, sour cream, and vanilla. (4) Add egg mixture to flour mixture and beat until smooth. (5) Oil a 22-cm square baking pan (you can also use an 20-cm square pan, or anything of similar surface area, if you increase the baking time by about 5 minutes). (6) Spread the batter in the pan. If you are using fruit or nuts, scatter them over the batter and stir a little bit so that they stay in the top layer. (7) In a small bowl, mix 60 g sugar with the butter and cinammon with a sturdy fork, until they are blended and resemble cornmeal (i.e., you should have a mixture of fine crumbs, not a smooth mix- ture). (8) Sprinkle topping over batter. (9) Bake for 20-25 minutes, until a clean toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out dry. (10) Cool slightly; serve warm or at room temperature. Don't ruin it by serving it with salted butter.
All ingredients and bowls should be a room temperature before you start; this is particularly true for the butter.
Difficulty: easy. Time: 10-15 minutes preparation, 20 - 30 minutes baking. Precision: measure the ingredients.
Jeffrey Mogul Digital Equipment Corporation, Palo Alto, California, USA decwrl!mogul
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