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National Coffee Day! Celebrate with Coffee Cake

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My love for coffee is as strong as my first phone, the Nokia 3650. But right up there next to coffee is cake. Put them together and you get magical breakfast cake for your coffee: Coffee Cake! It can come in many delicious forms, but the recipe that I have been using for years is a triple threat: easy, delicious, and big. Box cake mixes are as frowned upon as mixing sandals and a snowstorm, but this recipe is one of two loopholes.

The reason I allow myself to use a cake mix for this is because it’s not necessary to bake a cake from scratch to eat for breakfast, and scratch cake would actually be too much for this. The cake mix cake is squishy and light, it’s the right consistency so that the coffee cake isn’t too heavy.

For this recipe, use your favorite (if you have one) vanilla/yellow box cake mix; I usually use good ol’ Duncan Hines. You’ll also need:

  • 4 Cups of All-Purpose Flour
  • 1.5 Cups White Sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon of Cinnamon
  • 1 Teaspoon of Vanilla
  • 1 Pound (4 sticks) Melted Butter

Okay here’s what you have to do: preheat the oven to whatever it says for the cake mix (probably 350 F). Make the cake mix how it says on the box in a greased and floured 11″ x 16″ pan, bake for 15 minutes. While that bakes, multitask the topping. Put all of the above ingredients together (it’s better to put the liquid in first) and mix with a wooden spoon until it’s all combined.

Take the cake out of the oven after 15 minutes, it doesn’t matter if it’s done yet. Now grab some handfuls of the topping that you made and squish and crumble it all over the cake. Put it back in the oven for another fifteen minutes, and make sure you let it cool. Once it’s cool, go to town on it with powdered sugar! Seriously, like a winter wonderland mess all over it. Then you’re ready to eat! Or if you’re a nice person with self control I guess you’ll share it with people, your call.

If you want to be creative or an over-achiever, you can try different types of cake mix. Pumpkin could be good for the fall, if anyone tries it let me know how it is!