Streusel Coffee Cake

I made this delicious coffee cake today. I've been thinking about making if for a couple weeks and today happened to be the day.  I had my doubts when I was making the batter because it was sooo thick and there wasn't very much...but it is fab.  And puffs up like a gem.  The recipe is from A Bountiful Kitchen.  The recipe can be found here but I'm putting it on here because I actually remembered to take pictures and darn it, I'm going to use them!

Streusel Coffee Cake

1 1/2 cups flour

3/4 cup sugar

2 t baking powder

1/4 t salt

1 egg, beaten

1/2 cup milk

1/4 cup oil (vegetable)

Streusel topping:

4 T brown sugar

2 T flour

1 t cinnamon

4 T butter

1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

if not using nuts, add 1/2 cup flour (*I used a total of 4 T of flour for the topping and no nuts.  1/2 C just seemed like so much)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix the first 4 cake ingredients in a bowl. Make a well in the center, and add the wet ingredients. Mix just until all ingredients are incorporated. 

 Pour into a greased 8 or 9 inch cake pan (round or square).

Place brown sugar, flour and cinnamon for streusel into a small bowl. Cut butter into dry ingredients. Add chopped nuts, or more flour if omitting nuts. Crumble topping over batter . 

 Bake at 350 for about 30-40 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Serve warm. 

Fresh out of the oven.

After cooling for a bit.

The final product. YUM!

Next time I make this, I would swirl some of the streusel into the batter and then cover the top.  The cake is really good but I think having some cinnamon in the middle would be nice.