Other people have real jobs. I cook and bake.
I've mastered the deep fryer and the art of making alfredo sauce, as well as how to flip an omelette without a spatula. I create recipes while wandering around grocery stores, then promptly forget them right after I've made the meal. I walk into kitchens and food happens, whether or not I have all the right ingredients or tools. After all, improvised tools is only a -2 to my skill check.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Post The First: Cinnamon-Chocolate Streusel Coffee Cake

Coffee Cake:
1 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup (one stick) butter or margarine
2/3 cup buttermilk
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla

Streusel:
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tbs baking cocoa powder
1 tbs cinnamon
2 tbs butter, softened
1/2 cup miniature chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350F (325F if using a dark or nonstick pan). Grease bottom only of an 8" square pan.

Combine dry cake ingredients in a bowl. Cut in butter (or use a pastry blender, or just mix it in with your hands) until mixture is crumbly. Add buttermilk, egg, and vanilla. Mix until well-blended. Pour/spread into pan.

Mix all streusel ingredients but chocolate chips in a small bowl with a fork until crumbly. Sprinkle over batter. Sprinkle with chocolate chips (you probably won't want all of them, or maybe you want more, so the 1/2 cup is totes adjustable).

Bake 35 - 45 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean. Cool 30 minutes. Serve warm.




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