ISO: simple, basic coffee cake for 9×9 inch pan
May 20th, 2012 | 
Author: Hi Folks,
I am looking for a simple, basic coffee cake recipe that can be easily varied by adding fruit, nuts, spices, cocoa or whatever that will fit in a 9×9″ pan. Or if you have a great recipe for a chocolate, lemon, spice or any kind of fruit coffee cake, and are willing to share, I would be very pleased with that as well.
My son has finally showed an interest in learning to cook and bake, so I thought I’d start him off with something easy.
I look forward to see what you come up with.
Posted in * Recipe Requests
*Here’s one we like. It uses sour cream or flavored yogurt so it could be adapted easily to meet your tastes. I’m sure you could add some dried fruit, nuts or chocolate chips.
Coffee Cake
This one is lovely and simple. I almost always have the ingredients on hand. I’ve added fruits (cooked peaches, blueberries and lemon) and nuts – you can do what you like with it, or just leave as-is!
Lois’s Best Coffee Cake
Source of Recipe
My friend Maggie (maggiethecat at eGullet.org)
This coffee cake was the subject of Maggie’s lovely essay, Swans and Streusel, on eGullet. A really easy and good coffee cake. I read the essay and saw the recipe and 45 minutes later I was taking this tender, fragrant coffee cake out of the oven!
List of Ingredients
1/4 C butter
1/3 C sugar
1 egg
2/3 C milk
1 t vanilla
1-1/2 C flour
1/4 t salt
2 t baking powder
TOPPING:
brown sugar
cinnamon
butter
Recipe
Preheat oven to 375 degrees and grease a 8″x8″ pan.
Cream the butter and sugar. Beat in the egg, milk and vanilla.
Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder. Add to the butter mixture and mix well. Spread in the prepared pan and top with the brown sugar, cinnamon and small bits of butter (I used a little shredder and ‘shredded’ some very cold butter on the top). Bake for 25 minutes. Serve hot, spread with butter.
Maggie says that you can add coconut or nuts, if you like.
Here is a link to the recipe:
http://www.recipecircus.com/recipes/Kimberlyn/QuickBreads/Lois39s_Best_Coffee_Cake.html
*The easiest recipe is on the back of the Bisquick box.
JB
Marian, this recipe NEVER fails me. It’s just so easy and always good!
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Summer Torte
1 stick butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup flour, sifted
1 tsp. baking powder
2 eggs
Pinch of salt
Fruit of choice; sliced into wedges (I used about 7 plums.
Peaches, nectarines, strawberries all work great and in combination)
Cinnamon sugar for top
Preheat oven to 350° F. Cream butter and add
sugar. Beat well. Add eggs and beat. Mix together flour, baking powder and
salt. Add to batter. Mix. Spoon globs to greased 9- or 10-inch springform. Use
a knife to spread batter to cover entire pan. Arrange fruit on top. Sprinkle
with cinnamon sugar (amount depends on the sweetness of the fruit). Bake for 45 minutes.
*I’m going to try these….printing! Thank you!
*Thanks to all who replied. I’ve copied all of these recipes to my “Try this soon” file. They look great!