' This is one of Ari’s favorite breakfast dishes. If there are leftovers and we don’t put them away, she will calmly go and snatch pieces and eating them without telling anyone. One day, she’d eaten an entire cake before we’d realized it.
We usually have Cowboy Coffee Cake for Sunday breakfast, along with scrambled eggs and breakfast sausages (another of Ari’s favorites).
Cowboy Coffee Cake
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups brown sugar
2/3 cup shortening
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 cup buttermilk
2 well beaten eggs
Preheat oven to 375.
Grease and flour two eight inch round cake pans.
Combine with pastry blender flour, salt, brown sugar and shortening. Reserve 1/2 cup of crumbs.
Add baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg to remaining crumbs and stir.
Add milk and eggs and mix until blended. Pour batter into prepared pans (half in each). Sprinkle reserved crumbs on top.
Bake for 20-30 minutes or until toothpicks inserted in the center comes out clean.
Serves 12-16.
