Shelly's Recipe

CINNAMON APPLE COFFEE CAKE

Category: Coffee Cake

Cake Batter:
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
3 eggs
3 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp apple pie spice
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla

Cinnamon-crumb mixture:
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 cup flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup butter
1 cup Granny Smith apples, chopped

Preheat oven to 350; grease and flour a tube pan or bundt pan.

Cake: Cream together sugar and butter. Add eggs one at a time, blending well after each addition. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and apple pie spice; blend well and add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk. Stir in vanilla. Batter will be thick.

Cinnamon Crumb Mixture: combine sugar, flour and cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture is crumbly; stir in chopped apples.

To bake: Pour 1/2 of the cake batter into the prepared pan; pour 1/2 of the crumb mixture on top. Top with remaining cake batter followed by the balance of the crumb mixture. Bake at 350 for 60 minutes, until cake tests done. Cool 5 minutes in pan, then invert on plate to serve. Cool and slice.