Old Fashioned Coffee Cake Recipe (1954)
This old fashioned coffee cake recipe comes to us from the Los Angeles Unified School District, where it has been beloved by generations of students since the 1950s.
Equipment
- 9 x 13 inch pan
- parchment paper
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 large egg, at room temperature
- 1 cup buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F and grease a 9 x 13-inch cake pan with butter. Line with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, mix flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, salt, nutmeg, and vegetable oil. Stir with a rubber spatula until crumbly. Set 1/2 cup aside in a small bowl, and combine with cinnamon.
- Add the remaining ingredients into the the large bowl and stir to combine.
- Pour the coffee cake batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top of the batter. Scatter the streusel mixture over the top of the cake batter, ensuring that there are some big crumbs for extra crunch.
- Bake the cake on an oven rack in the center of the oven for 25 to 30 minutes until golden brown and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Remove to a wire rack to cool for 5 minutes.
- Remove the crumb cake from the pan and cut the cake into 15 slices and sprinkle the top of the warm cake with confectioners sugar.
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