Snowy Day....

We had a great last gift that came in the form of a big snow storm in the Mid-Atlantic area.   It delayed our flight a day and forced us to relax and stay inside.  We baked, made pasta, packing, got to shovel snow for the first time in probably 6 years (we never had to do that in NC either) and even bought the MagicJack.  We now have a US phone number and you can call us......you better!  We're 8 hours ahead but we can work all that out. 

We made a great coffee cake this morning. I wanted to pass on the recipe for you:

Crumb Topped Coffee Cake

Crumb Topping:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 tbsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly

 Coffee Cake:
4 cups all purpose flour
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly
4 large eggs, at room temperature
1 tbsp vanilla extra
2 cups buttermilk or plain yogurt

Preheat oven to 350 and position rack in the middle of the oven.
Grease 13 x 9 pan.

To make topping, combine all dry ingredients together and add in melted butter.  Mix together with fingertips to form large, coarse crumbs. Set aside.

To make the cake, in a bowl, combine the flour, sugars, baking powder, and salt and whisk to mix well. Add the butter, eggs, vanilla and buttermilk or yogurt (I used yogurt) and beat with an electric mixer at medium speed until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes.

Put batter into greased pan and distribute topping evenly.

Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes or toothpick comes out clean.